Middle income - Primary education, teachers

The value for Primary education, teachers in Middle income was 24,133,860 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 49 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 24,133,860 in 2019 and a minimum value of 9,354,794 in 1970.

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

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

See also:

Year Value
1970 9,354,794
1971 9,645,939
1972 10,304,760
1973 10,781,590
1974 11,233,220
1975 11,689,840
1976 12,108,340
1977 12,353,740
1978 12,518,310
1979 12,822,910
1980 13,279,720
1981 13,704,040
1982 14,168,010
1983 14,583,770
1984 14,880,360
1985 15,040,930
1986 15,433,300
1987 15,433,110
1988 15,778,210
1989 16,334,200
1990 16,496,470
1991 16,693,650
1992 16,909,460
1993 17,231,420
1994 17,493,430
1995 17,850,360
1996 18,084,970
1997 18,224,190
1998 18,447,350
1999 18,494,560
2000 18,748,310
2001 18,840,610
2002 18,726,030
2003 19,453,800
2004 19,948,030
2005 20,112,530
2006 20,176,720
2007 20,464,970
2008 20,539,750
2009 20,835,950
2010 21,201,040
2011 21,619,570
2012 21,773,520
2013 22,832,940
2014 22,956,570
2015 23,242,670
2016 23,734,890
2017 23,538,720
2018 23,506,090
2019 24,133,860

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