Jamaica - Secondary education, teachers

The value for Secondary education, teachers in Jamaica was 12,957 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 45 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 18,222 in 2010 and a minimum value of 7,361 in 1975.

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

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

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Year Value
1975 7,361
1984 8,193
1985 7,996
1987 8,330
1988 9,037
1989 9,061
1990 9,211
1993 10,931
2000 12,396
2002 11,801
2003 11,315
2004 12,828
2007 13,006
2010 18,222
2011 15,486
2012 14,256
2013 14,150
2014 13,575
2015 13,099
2016 11,974
2017 13,173
2018 12,011
2019 12,957
2020 12,957

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