Central Europe and the Baltics - Primary education, teachers

The value for Primary education, teachers in Central Europe and the Baltics was 454,466 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 39 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 583,770 in 1993 and a minimum value of 394,887 in 2012.

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

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

See also:

Year Value
1980 508,006
1993 583,770
1994 581,319
1995 566,212
1996 567,199
1997 571,484
1998 567,376
1999 547,339
2000 535,663
2001 515,220
2002 482,746
2003 453,595
2004 445,427
2005 440,034
2006 432,093
2007 430,623
2008 430,727
2009 428,992
2010 425,774
2011 397,050
2012 394,887
2013 396,932
2014 396,556
2015 407,844
2016 420,478
2017 421,191
2018 482,907
2019 454,466

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