Sweden - Primary education, teachers

The value for Primary education, teachers in Sweden was 70,395 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 48 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 70,395 in 2019 and a minimum value of 30,800 in 1971.

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 30,800
1972 32,700
1973 38,000
1974 39,833
1975 42,958
1976 34,185
1993 64,363
1994 61,635
1995 61,170
1996 59,402
1997 58,365
1998 59,929
1999 61,920
2000 65,528
2001 68,949
2002 68,531
2003 69,256
2004 68,325
2005 65,516
2006 62,897
2007 61,310
2008 61,220
2009 61,393
2010 60,396
2011 62,429
2012 62,442
2013 62,105
2014 63,467
2015 65,459
2016 66,918
2017 70,389
2018 69,249
2019 70,395

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