IBRD only - Primary education, teachers

The value for Primary education, teachers in IBRD only was 20,473,340 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 49 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 20,473,340 in 2019 and a minimum value of 9,072,657 in 1970.

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
1970 9,072,657
1971 9,310,829
1972 9,894,368
1973 10,319,420
1974 10,708,130
1975 11,105,750
1976 11,474,610
1977 11,650,310
1978 11,683,120
1979 11,891,580
1980 12,345,910
1981 12,715,770
1982 13,107,590
1983 13,444,170
1984 13,699,850
1985 13,880,430
1986 14,300,450
1987 14,306,350
1988 14,611,270
1989 15,110,380
1990 15,258,520
1991 15,388,120
1992 15,511,910
1993 15,742,850
1994 15,943,260
1995 16,258,140
1996 16,389,200
1997 16,450,950
1998 16,595,990
1999 16,594,610
2000 16,792,140
2001 16,820,570
2002 16,638,740
2003 17,172,740
2004 17,624,560
2005 17,727,100
2006 17,788,710
2007 18,078,140
2008 18,128,170
2009 18,322,040
2010 18,547,860
2011 18,690,130
2012 18,904,940
2013 19,608,880
2014 19,636,650
2015 19,863,360
2016 20,238,740
2017 19,919,330
2018 19,867,810
2019 20,473,340

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