Botswana - Primary education, teachers

The value for Primary education, teachers in Botswana was 14,533 as of 2015. As the graph below shows, over the past 45 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 15,200 in 2014 and a minimum value of 2,275 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 2,275
1971 2,404
1972 2,467
1973 2,698
1974 3,047
1975 3,509
1976 3,921
1977 4,495
1978 4,641
1979 4,863
1980 5,316
1981 5,628
1982 5,767
1983 6,360
1984 6,794
1985 6,980
1986 7,324
1987 7,704
1988 8,104
1989 8,529
1990 8,956
1991 9,833
1992 10,463
1993 11,190
1994 11,731
1995 12,306
1997 11,454
1998 11,654
1999 11,950
2000 12,135
2001 12,370
2002 12,531
2003 12,678
2004 12,717
2005 12,884
2006 13,012
2007 12,989
2008 13,045
2009 12,964
2012 14,342
2013 15,035
2014 15,200
2015 14,533

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