Bulgaria - Primary education, teachers

The value for Primary education, teachers in Bulgaria was 20,668 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 23 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 25,860 in 1997 and a minimum value of 14,388 in 2013.

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
1996 25,503
1997 25,860
1998 24,716
1999 22,983
2000 23,344
2001 21,161
2002 20,789
2003 19,439
2004 18,762
2005 17,873
2006 17,378
2007 16,790
2008 16,346
2009 15,075
2010 14,885
2011 14,608
2012 14,489
2013 14,388
2014 14,596
2016 14,876
2017 17,393
2018 19,225
2019 20,668

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