Arab World - Primary education, teachers

The value for Primary education, teachers in Arab World was 2,420,010 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 49 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 2,420,010 in 2019 and a minimum value of 468,550 in 1970.

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

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

See also:

Year Value
1970 468,550
1971 482,418
1972 506,620
1973 528,110
1974 546,493
1975 570,003
1976 604,204
1977 638,196
1978 662,401
1979 696,471
1980 734,188
1981 761,863
1982 797,504
1983 857,284
1984 898,790
1985 949,162
1986 997,359
1987 1,054,468
1988 1,094,416
1989 1,271,214
1990 1,191,970
1991 1,251,457
1992 1,269,702
1993 1,334,307
1994 1,373,137
1995 1,413,691
1996 1,455,204
1997 1,531,541
1998 1,548,510
1999 1,554,111
2000 1,614,222
2001 1,673,986
2002 1,721,442
2003 1,734,642
2004 1,776,160
2005 1,838,953
2006 1,887,167
2007 1,913,622
2008 1,975,278
2009 1,956,488
2010 1,986,583
2011 2,068,075
2012 2,231,272
2013 2,266,855
2014 2,315,003
2015 2,313,493
2016 2,302,263
2017 2,302,189
2018 2,347,556
2019 2,420,010

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