Maldives - Primary education, teachers

The value for Primary education, teachers in Maldives was 5,084 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 21 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 5,084 in 2019 and a minimum value of 2,786 in 2004.

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
1998 2,805
1999 3,051
2000 3,246
2001 3,155
2002 3,411
2003 3,644
2004 2,786
2005 2,882
2006 3,336
2007 3,463
2008 3,551
2009 3,524
2010 3,602
2011 3,275
2012 3,405
2013 3,411
2014 3,292
2015 4,075
2016 4,252
2017 4,460
2018 4,582
2019 5,084

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