Costa Rica - Primary education, teachers

The value for Primary education, teachers in Costa Rica was 43,093 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 50 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 43,093 in 2020 and a minimum value of 10,379 in 1984.

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 11,720
1971 12,061
1972 12,573
1973 12,940
1974 12,643
1975 12,429
1976 12,973
1979 13,242
1980 12,596
1981 10,556
1982 10,824
1983 10,767
1984 10,379
1985 11,526
1986 11,785
1987 12,490
1988 12,829
1989 13,073
1990 13,651
1991 14,078
1992 14,584
1993 14,949
1994 15,806
1995 16,565
1996 17,554
1997 18,358
1998 19,239
1999 21,233
2000 22,111
2001 22,715
2002 24,142
2004 24,975
2005 25,399
2006 27,733
2007 27,518
2008 28,186
2009 28,888
2010 29,163
2011 29,233
2013 35,986
2014 35,967
2015 37,349
2016 39,717
2017 40,627
2018 39,638
2019 42,720
2020 43,093

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