Korea - Secondary education, teachers

The value for Secondary education, teachers in Korea was 228,907 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 48 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 239,996 in 2014 and a minimum value of 52,232 in 1971.

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
1971 52,232
1972 59,454
1973 65,442
1974 72,059
1975 77,389
1976 83,811
1977 88,230
1978 92,103
1979 101,159
1980 104,796
1981 109,546
1982 116,559
1983 121,704
1984 128,967
1985 134,509
1986 140,942
1987 146,522
1988 152,595
1989 158,569
1990 169,772
1991 180,724
1992 188,860
1993 192,662
1994 192,703
1995 188,858
1996 190,667
1997 192,851
1998 192,459
1999 188,751
2000 188,327
2001 189,273
2002 200,805
2003 206,163
2004 207,878
2005 209,676
2006 214,228
2007 216,947
2008 219,288
2009 221,689
2010 224,503
2011 239,292
2012 237,375
2013 238,301
2014 239,996
2015 235,768
2016 233,461
2017 231,582
2018 230,340
2019 228,907

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