Bangladesh - Primary education, teachers

The value for Primary education, teachers in Bangladesh was 576,887 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 48 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 576,887 in 2018 and a minimum value of 113,673 in 1970.

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
1970 113,673
1971 117,275
1972 136,508
1973 155,742
1974 150,267
1975 164,717
1976 172,448
1977 174,384
1978 186,144
1979 187,504
1980 153,859
1981 149,909
1983 171,349
1984 189,884
1985 189,900
1986 190,557
1987 191,507
1988 191,399
1989 186,872
1990 189,508
2005 344,806
2006 344,914
2007 364,494
2008 365,925
2009 361,450
2010 395,281
2011 458,389
2015 527,798
2016 548,201
2017 574,001
2018 576,887

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