Colombia - Primary education, teachers

The value for Primary education, teachers in Colombia was 184,695 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 49 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 220,517 in 1998 and a minimum value of 86,005 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 86,005
1971 90,271
1972 103,292
1973 110,084
1974 115,310
1975 121,957
1976 125,830
1977 128,494
1978 131,214
1979 139,277
1980 136,381
1981 137,721
1982 131,741
1983 133,957
1984 135,417
1985 132,940
1986 135,924
1987 138,172
1988 139,427
1989 140,681
1990 141,936
1991 143,193
1992 162,445
1993 166,123
1994 179,776
1995 189,123
1996 193,911
1998 220,517
1999 214,911
2000 197,374
2001 197,234
2002 193,627
2004 188,147
2005 186,898
2006 187,920
2007 179,286
2008 179,806
2009 180,806
2010 180,760
2011 178,550
2012 189,335
2013 188,462
2014 187,042
2015 184,791
2016 182,919
2017 184,384
2019 184,695

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