Singapore - Primary education, teachers

The value for Primary education, teachers in Singapore was 16,545 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 49 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 16,545 in 2019 and a minimum value of 9,463 in 1980.

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 12,259
1971 11,965
1972 10,858
1973 11,135
1974 10,985
1975 10,777
1976 10,597
1977 10,345
1978 10,347
1979 10,492
1980 9,463
1981 9,505
1982 10,286
1983 9,921
1984 10,657
1985 10,363
1986 10,264
1987 10,199
1988 9,962
1989 9,998
1990 10,006
1991 9,843
1992 10,188
1993 10,711
1994 10,553
1995 10,356
1996 10,618
2007 14,242
2008 14,850
2009 16,171
2016 15,734
2017 15,969
2018 16,294
2019 16,545

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