Iraq - Primary education, teachers

The value for Primary education, teachers in Iraq was 286,890 as of 2007. As the graph below shows, over the past 36 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 286,890 in 2007 and a minimum value of 49,822 in 1971.

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 49,822
1972 54,302
1973 54,979
1974 58,455
1975 57,621
1976 69,812
1977 70,663
1978 78,060
1979 87,148
1980 92,603
1981 94,000
1982 98,422
1983 107,479
1984 112,428
1985 115,642
1986 118,442
1987 123,310
1988 119,280
1989 130,777
1991 134,081
1992 120,063
1993 131,271
1996 145,455
1999 141,479
2000 170,141
2003 220,366
2004 211,136
2007 286,890

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