European Union - Primary education, teachers

The value for Primary education, teachers in European Union was 2,246,608 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 49 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 2,256,980 in 2018 and a minimum value of 1,963,220 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 1,992,968
1971 1,990,339
1972 2,017,205
1973 2,012,641
1974 2,029,502
1975 2,037,175
1976 2,029,146
1977 2,036,054
1978 2,029,667
1979 2,023,181
1980 2,008,987
1981 1,983,902
1982 1,973,468
1983 1,963,273
1984 1,963,220
1985 1,979,991
1986 1,988,564
1987 1,971,618
1988 1,973,806
1989 1,979,419
1990 1,986,639
1991 2,011,677
1992 2,010,350
1993 2,050,780
1994 2,088,914
1995 2,045,401
1996 2,082,827
1997 2,092,241
1998 2,087,647
1999 2,083,034
2000 2,104,494
2001 2,110,699
2002 2,095,668
2003 2,063,128
2004 2,053,796
2005 2,080,291
2006 2,069,142
2007 2,100,553
2008 2,101,016
2009 2,107,272
2010 2,129,572
2011 2,129,256
2012 2,097,850
2013 2,087,721
2014 2,091,328
2015 2,137,490
2016 2,196,339
2017 2,217,018
2018 2,256,980
2019 2,246,608

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