New Zealand - Primary education, teachers

The value for Primary education, teachers in New Zealand was 26,809 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 48 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 26,809 in 2019 and a minimum value of 16,057 in 1988.

Definition: Primary 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 19,163
1972 19,499
1973 19,831
1974 20,086
1976 21,339
1977 21,297
1978 21,273
1979 20,063
1981 22,277
1982 17,306
1984 16,728
1987 16,169
1988 16,057
1989 16,154
1990 17,729
1991 18,960
1992 19,583
1994 19,443
1996 18,146
1997 19,523
1998 18,654
1999 19,739
2000 19,490
2001 20,368
2002 20,363
2003 20,053
2004 21,562
2005 21,681
2006 22,083
2007 22,257
2008 22,730
2009 23,800
2010 24,053
2011 23,872
2012 23,829
2014 25,072
2015 25,407
2016 25,787
2017 25,762
2018 26,126
2019 26,809

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