Malaysia - Primary education, teachers

The value for Primary education, teachers in Malaysia was 250,694 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 49 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 278,496 in 2014 and a minimum value of 54,366 in 1970.

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
1970 54,366
1975 59,343
1977 61,267
1978 63,636
1979 64,270
1980 73,664
1981 77,100
1982 79,796
1983 81,664
1984 83,760
1985 91,424
1987 102,356
1988 109,563
1989 112,204
1990 120,505
1991 126,139
1992 130,482
1993 134,579
1994 139,343
1995 140,430
1996 147,128
1998 132,443
1999 142,996
2000 154,720
2001 154,233
2002 159,041
2003 174,504
2004 180,682
2005 189,521
2006 205,513
2007 214,984
2008 223,335
2009 245,871
2010 256,615
2011 262,707
2012 270,069
2013 274,348
2014 278,496
2015 269,757
2016 267,060
2017 264,648
2018 258,596
2019 250,694

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