Myanmar - Primary education, teachers

The value for Primary education, teachers in Myanmar was 217,561 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 47 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 241,433 in 2016 and a minimum value of 65,079 in 1975.

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 68,156
1972 71,136
1973 71,136
1975 65,079
1976 66,251
1977 67,093
1978 76,253
1979 80,343
1980 82,543
1981 80,343
1982 78,265
1983 82,799
1984 89,539
1985 87,631
1986 87,482
1987 86,171
1988 97,763
1989 96,139
1990 107,867
1991 111,470
1992 115,793
1993 118,684
1994 119,725
1995 119,942
1999 154,686
2000 148,254
2001 148,231
2002 146,747
2003 149,001
2004 154,151
2005 160,110
2006 166,195
2007 172,209
2008 177,331
2009 179,268
2010 181,666
2014 187,828
2016 241,433
2017 233,815
2018 217,561

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