Costa Rica - Secondary education, teachers, female

The value for Secondary education, teachers, female in Costa Rica was 22,860 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 50 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 22,860 in 2020 and a minimum value of 1,745 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 1,745
1981 3,784
1996 5,975
1997 5,568
1998 6,338
1999 6,906
2000 7,200
2001 7,531
2002 8,354
2006 12,144
2007 12,169
2008 14,208
2009 15,197
2010 15,852
2011 16,785
2013 18,376
2014 18,402
2015 18,863
2016 20,878
2017 20,142
2018 22,853
2019 21,826
2020 22,860

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