Hong Kong SAR, China - Primary education, teachers

The value for Primary education, teachers in Hong Kong SAR, China was 29,312 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 49 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 29,312 in 2020 and a minimum value of 17,864 in 1982.

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 22,383
1972 22,953
1973 22,538
1974 22,093
1975 21,641
1976 20,666
1977 19,695
1978 19,073
1979 18,321
1980 18,045
1981 17,937
1982 17,864
1983 19,388
1984 19,431
1985 19,621
1986 19,404
1987 19,361
1988 19,625
1989 19,813
1991 19,518
1992 19,346
1993 18,790
1994 19,122
1996 19,710
1998 21,351
1999 22,123
2000 23,107
2001 23,611
2002 24,663
2003 24,657
2004 25,200
2005 24,591
2006 24,207
2007 24,468
2008 23,565
2009 23,278
2010 22,984
2011 22,596
2012 22,599
2013 22,916
2014 23,407
2015 24,339
2016 24,931
2017 25,599
2018 27,400
2019 28,522
2020 29,312

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