Nigeria - Secondary education, teachers

The value for Secondary education, teachers in Nigeria was 776,048 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 48 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 776,048 in 2018 and a minimum value of 16,686 in 1977.

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
1970 16,794
1972 19,610
1977 16,686
1978 23,946
1979 29,443
1980 34,629
1981 41,581
1982 81,492
1983 89,076
1984 108,664
1985 98,487
1986 105,003
1988 134,400
1989 136,677
1990 141,377
1991 141,491
1992 147,530
1993 151,722
1994 152,596
1999 129,013
2000 132,884
2001 140,631
2002 162,960
2003 180,278
2004 154,594
2005 159,283
2006 202,082
2007 213,366
2008 308,311
2010 390,427
2018 776,048

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