Thailand - Secondary education, teachers

The value for Secondary education, teachers in Thailand was 248,235 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 49 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 248,235 in 2020 and a minimum value of 42,336 in 1974.

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 44,756
1974 42,336
1977 49,229
1978 59,161
1984 117,004
1985 118,422
1987 124,445
1988 123,153
1989 128,140
1990 130,558
1991 133,882
1992 134,087
1993 141,632
1994 151,008
2001 169,402
2002 172,948
2006 208,812
2007 227,929
2008 222,799
2014 229,937
2015 240,005
2016 246,711
2017 240,251
2018 241,484
2019 229,313
2020 248,235

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