OECD members - Secondary education, teachers

The value for Secondary education, teachers in OECD members was 8,370,922 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 49 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 8,370,922 in 2019 and a minimum value of 4,637,013 in 1970.

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 4,637,013
1971 4,671,093
1972 4,804,351
1973 4,901,458
1974 5,075,638
1975 5,226,954
1976 5,398,956
1977 5,560,301
1978 5,637,565
1979 5,665,503
1980 5,895,911
1981 5,960,068
1982 6,057,013
1983 6,105,491
1984 6,164,539
1985 6,220,881
1986 6,291,997
1987 6,340,351
1988 6,347,492
1989 6,358,304
1990 6,420,975
1991 6,528,544
1992 6,675,738
1993 6,905,181
1994 7,052,443
1995 7,084,632
1996 7,132,519
1997 7,143,105
1998 7,080,044
1999 7,148,410
2000 7,284,930
2001 7,401,023
2002 7,464,340
2003 7,530,767
2004 7,552,872
2005 7,658,842
2006 7,685,366
2007 7,783,149
2008 7,792,024
2009 7,845,867
2010 7,834,683
2011 7,846,590
2012 7,778,210
2013 7,918,035
2014 8,026,997
2015 8,100,393
2016 8,201,921
2017 8,255,743
2018 8,264,256
2019 8,370,922

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