Suriname - Primary education, teachers

The value for Primary education, teachers in Suriname was 5,257 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 48 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 5,395 in 2015 and a minimum value of 2,487 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 2,487
1972 2,729
1973 2,870
1974 3,089
1975 3,005
1976 2,552
1977 3,016
1978 3,077
1979 3,068
1980 3,476
1981 2,803
1982 2,793
1983 2,966
1984 2,971
1985 2,809
1986 3,010
1987 2,705
1988 2,680
1989 2,921
1990 2,733
1991 2,686
1992 2,982
1993 3,695
2001 3,253
2002 3,291
2005 3,520
2006 4,136
2007 4,913
2008 4,354
2009 4,620
2010 4,749
2011 4,880
2012 5,019
2013 5,114
2014 5,263
2015 5,395
2016 5,367
2017 5,309
2018 5,054
2019 5,257

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