Finland - Secondary education, teachers

The value for Secondary education, teachers in Finland was 39,860 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 48 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 44,843 in 2012 and a minimum value of 28,595 in 1978.

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
1971 32,247
1972 33,351
1973 33,993
1974 35,419
1975 36,151
1977 30,799
1978 28,595
1979 32,650
1980 33,077
1981 33,958
1982 34,248
1983 37,098
1984 37,356
1999 39,267
2000 38,776
2001 37,925
2002 39,276
2003 41,555
2004 41,953
2005 41,982
2006 43,840
2007 44,170
2008 42,991
2009 43,319
2010 43,076
2011 44,493
2012 44,843
2013 42,578
2014 42,085
2016 40,768
2017 40,018
2018 39,691
2019 39,860

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