Euro area - Primary education, teachers

The value for Primary education, teachers in Euro area was 1,446,426 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 49 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 1,446,426 in 2019 and a minimum value of 1,123,325 in 1984.

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

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

See also:

Year Value
1970 1,134,471
1971 1,149,977
1972 1,183,838
1973 1,179,783
1974 1,197,213
1975 1,204,193
1976 1,202,453
1977 1,215,030
1978 1,214,250
1979 1,207,906
1980 1,197,460
1981 1,177,401
1982 1,159,298
1983 1,137,033
1984 1,123,325
1985 1,129,079
1986 1,149,609
1987 1,143,326
1988 1,146,866
1989 1,141,834
1990 1,148,956
1991 1,173,333
1992 1,168,086
1993 1,186,082
1994 1,225,697
1995 1,196,440
1996 1,232,970
1997 1,237,144
1998 1,232,046
1999 1,241,253
2000 1,272,022
2001 1,277,155
2002 1,288,650
2003 1,285,004
2004 1,286,557
2005 1,314,540
2006 1,328,759
2007 1,361,471
2008 1,371,892
2009 1,379,342
2010 1,398,201
2011 1,414,911
2012 1,395,225
2013 1,379,965
2014 1,361,572
2015 1,374,416
2016 1,399,356
2017 1,410,647
2018 1,429,981
2019 1,446,426

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