Finland - Primary education, teachers

The value for Primary education, teachers in Finland was 27,433 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 48 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 27,433 in 2019 and a minimum value of 17,360 in 1971.

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
1971 17,360
1972 17,427
1973 19,273
1974 21,248
1975 23,235
1976 24,494
1977 27,414
1978 25,096
1979 25,142
1980 24,834
1981 25,949
1982 26,664
1983 24,752
1984 25,139
1996 23,294
1997 21,459
1998 21,639
1999 22,163
2000 23,255
2001 24,669
2002 25,260
2003 24,024
2004 24,313
2005 24,577
2006 24,793
2007 24,272
2008 24,830
2009 25,728
2010 24,736
2011 25,281
2012 25,609
2013 26,402
2014 26,385
2016 26,996
2017 26,633
2018 27,152
2019 27,433

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