France - Primary education, teachers

The value for Primary education, teachers in France was 246,897 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 44 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 246,897 in 2019 and a minimum value of 191,847 in 1985.

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
1975 207,386
1976 204,311
1977 203,056
1979 230,634
1980 232,405
1982 220,631
1984 193,353
1985 191,847
1986 199,445
1987 198,800
1988 202,348
1989 198,922
1993 219,182
1994 218,019
1995 216,962
1996 216,938
1997 211,192
1998 195,850
1999 208,607
2000 207,216
2001 204,727
2002 204,287
2003 203,418
2004 202,954
2005 216,411
2006 217,017
2007 216,654
2008 217,428
2009 221,717
2010 234,098
2011 238,141
2012 233,262
2013 229,471
2018 243,870
2019 246,897

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