Korea - Primary education, teachers

The value for Primary education, teachers in Korea was 166,710 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 48 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 166,710 in 2019 and a minimum value of 101,095 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 101,095
1972 103,756
1973 105,672
1974 107,259
1975 107,436
1976 108,126
1977 109,530
1978 112,997
1979 115,245
1980 117,290
1981 119,064
1982 122,727
1983 124,572
1984 126,163
1985 126,233
1986 126,785
1987 126,677
1988 130,142
1989 132,527
1990 134,898
1991 136,800
1992 138,207
1993 138,945
1994 139,096
1995 138,369
1996 137,912
1997 122,743
1998 124,412
1999 122,449
2000 125,477
2001 128,018
2002 132,716
2003 139,057
2004 142,153
2005 144,338
2006 147,728
2007 149,945
2008 152,891
2009 155,554
2010 158,056
2011 164,820
2012 165,536
2013 165,615
2014 165,786
2015 164,415
2016 164,354
2017 164,663
2018 165,837
2019 166,710

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