Costa Rica - Secondary education, teachers

The value for Secondary education, teachers in Costa Rica was 39,609 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 50 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 39,609 in 2020 and a minimum value of 3,691 in 1970.

Definition: Secondary 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 3,691
1972 4,005
1975 4,929
1976 5,915
1979 7,324
1980 7,157
1981 6,955
1982 7,307
1983 7,107
1985 6,613
1986 6,469
1987 6,472
1988 6,701
1989 6,661
1990 6,889
1991 7,249
1992 7,641
1993 8,263
1994 8,845
1995 9,327
1996 10,157
1997 10,483
1998 11,991
1999 13,038
2000 13,568
2001 14,323
2002 15,410
2006 21,042
2007 21,097
2008 24,347
2009 25,643
2010 26,676
2011 28,111
2013 32,018
2014 32,051
2015 32,988
2016 36,355
2017 35,112
2018 38,355
2019 37,828
2020 39,609

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