North America - Secondary education, teachers, female

The value for Secondary education, teachers, female in North America was 1,160,912 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 27 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 1,172,150 in 2009 and a minimum value of 787,818 in 1992.

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
1992 787,818
1993 824,360
1994 836,237
1995 851,369
1996 865,097
1997 884,307
1998 906,199
1999 926,304
2000 950,473
2001 990,589
2002 1,034,020
2003 1,072,103
2004 1,103,563
2005 1,116,070
2006 1,144,223
2007 1,140,927
2008 1,132,594
2009 1,172,150
2010 1,152,233
2011 1,131,715
2012 1,122,986
2013 1,114,128
2014 1,112,112
2015 1,125,079
2016 1,145,278
2017 1,157,085
2018 1,157,670
2019 1,160,912

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