São Tomé and Principe - Primary education, teachers

The value for Primary education, teachers in São Tomé and Principe was 1,193.00 as of 2017. As the graph below shows, over the past 46 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 1,291.00 in 2009 and a minimum value of 271.00 in 1971.

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 271.00
1972 301.00
1976 422.00
1978 527.00
1980 577.00
1981 588.00
1982 617.00
1983 628.00
1984 538.00
1985 517.00
1987 574.00
1988 616.00
1990 559.00
1996 638.00
1999 660.00
2002 881.00
2004 929.00
2005 990.00
2009 1,291.00
2011 1,183.00
2012 1,183.00
2013 1,107.00
2014 1,054.00
2015 917.00
2016 1,132.00
2017 1,193.00

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