IDA total - Primary education, teachers

The value for Primary education, teachers in IDA total was 6,913,096 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 49 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 6,913,096 in 2019 and a minimum value of 1,093,074 in 1970.

Definition: Primary education teachers includes full-time and part-time teachers.

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (http://uis.unesco.org/)

See also:

Year Value
1970 1,093,074
1971 1,137,744
1972 1,211,980
1973 1,267,383
1974 1,324,688
1975 1,386,988
1976 1,453,011
1977 1,543,280
1978 1,694,765
1979 1,815,323
1980 1,852,599
1981 1,947,448
1982 2,044,222
1983 2,165,356
1984 2,240,709
1985 2,255,703
1986 2,275,333
1987 2,296,477
1988 2,358,772
1989 2,431,687
1990 2,452,137
1991 2,570,343
1992 2,688,447
1993 2,809,530
1994 2,875,241
1995 2,962,907
1996 3,063,707
1997 3,175,080
1998 3,292,798
1999 3,368,162
2000 3,438,213
2001 3,554,664
2002 3,664,813
2003 3,877,239
2004 4,032,197
2005 4,171,384
2006 4,279,142
2007 4,357,936
2008 4,509,871
2009 4,707,219
2010 4,933,757
2011 5,254,061
2012 5,314,891
2013 5,737,468
2014 5,970,139
2015 6,119,732
2016 6,368,718
2017 6,600,603
2018 6,824,064
2019 6,913,096

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