Panama - Primary education, teachers

The value for Primary education, teachers in Panama was 19,072 as of 2017. As the graph below shows, over the past 47 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 19,507 in 2013 and a minimum value of 9,431 in 1970.

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
1970 9,431
1971 10,878
1972 11,814
1973 11,901
1974 12,133
1975 12,459
1976 11,943
1977 12,509
1978 13,032
1979 13,730
1980 12,361
1981 12,598
1982 12,853
1983 12,912
1984 13,255
1985 13,359
1986 15,446
1987 15,378
1988 14,980
1989 15,062
1990 15,249
1999 15,069
2000 16,187
2001 16,780
2002 17,296
2004 17,882
2005 17,751
2006 17,831
2007 18,183
2008 18,364
2009 18,651
2010 18,746
2011 19,108
2012 19,340
2013 19,507
2014 19,404
2015 19,072
2016 19,072
2017 19,072

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