Japan - Secondary education, teachers

The value for Secondary education, teachers in Japan was 634,431 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 48 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 702,575 in 1995 and a minimum value of 475,829 in 1972.

Definition: Secondary education teachers includes full-time and part-time teachers.

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (http://uis.unesco.org/)

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Year Value
1971 477,931
1972 475,829
1973 482,483
1974 486,902
1975 503,608
1976 511,590
1977 519,012
1978 528,696
1979 537,474
1980 541,374
1981 554,078
1982 553,684
1983 578,694
1984 589,577
1985 603,098
1986 619,105
1987 632,432
1988 641,622
1989 647,200
1990 651,728
1991 658,569
1992 663,215
1994 695,707
1995 702,575
1998 635,646
1999 629,836
2000 628,376
2001 622,207
2002 619,504
2003 615,158
2004 612,629
2005 610,372
2006 609,557
2007 607,663
2008 607,062
2009 609,966
2010 613,851
2011 617,642
2012 624,215
2014 631,675
2015 634,117
2016 638,414
2017 637,889
2018 637,136
2019 634,431

Development Relevance: Women teachers are important as they serve as role models to girls and help to attract and retain girls in school.

Other Notes: Data retrieved via API in March 2019. For detailed information on the observation level (e.g. National Estimation, UIS Estimation, or Category not applicable), please visit UIS.Stat (http://data.uis.unesco.org/).

Statistical Concept and Methodology: Teachers refer to persons employed full-time or part-time in an official capacity to guide and direct the learning experience of pupils and students, irrespective of their qualifications or the delivery mechanism, i.e. face-to-face and/or at a distance. This definition excludes educational personnel who have no active teaching duties (e.g. headmasters, headmistresses or principals who do not teach) or who work occasionally or in a voluntary capacity in educational institutions. Data on education are collected by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics from official responses to its annual education survey. All the data are mapped to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) to ensure the comparability of education programs at the international level. The current version was formally adopted by UNESCO Member States in 2011. The reference years reflect the school year for which the data are presented. In some countries the school year spans two calendar years (for example, from September 2010 to June 2011); in these cases the reference year refers to the year in which the school year ended (2011 in the example).

Aggregation method: Sum

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Education Indicators

Sub-Topic: Inputs