Benin - Primary education, teachers

The value for Primary education, teachers in Benin was 57,002 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 49 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 57,002 in 2020 and a minimum value of 3,753 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 3,753
1972 3,929
1973 4,184
1974 4,450
1975 4,708
1976 4,864
1977 5,786
1978 6,326
1979 6,048
1980 6,547
1981 7,994
1982 10,381
1983 11,339
1984 12,163
1985 13,269
1986 13,452
1987 13,867
1988 14,067
1989 13,821
1990 13,693
1991 13,556
1992 13,422
1993 13,184
1994 12,924
1995 13,586
1996 13,889
1997 15,705
1998 16,043
1999 16,335
2000 17,710
2001 19,710
2002 21,766
2003 19,836
2004 25,583
2005 28,148
2006 31,103
2008 35,938
2009 38,321
2010 38,540
2011 42,293
2012 45,010
2013 47,201
2014 46,454
2015 49,688
2016 54,463
2017 51,677
2018 56,738
2019 53,341
2020 57,002

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