Iran - Primary education, teachers

The value for Primary education, teachers in Iran was 286,476 as of 2017. As the graph below shows, over the past 46 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 326,990 in 1999 and a minimum value of 97,071 in 1973.

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 105,295
1972 103,130
1973 97,071
1974 120,017
1975 135,021
1976 152,106
1977 167,457
1978 154,577
1982 192,719
1983 280,649
1984 297,298
1985 307,718
1986 309,736
1987 258,062
1988 264,398
1989 276,438
1991 298,759
1992 312,273
1993 311,839
1994 311,531
1995 305,380
1996 291,886
1997 290,877
1998 298,103
1999 326,990
2000 316,939
2001 314,654
2002 308,105
2003 297,711
2004 294,098
2005 285,460
2006 274,922
2007 267,516
2008 268,430
2009 277,991
2013 306,282
2014 287,096
2015 286,477
2016 293,043
2017 286,476

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