Tonga - Primary education, teachers

The value for Primary education, teachers in Tonga was 779.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 50 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 843.00 in 2004 and a minimum value of 641.00 in 1973.

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 658.00
1971 648.00
1972 642.00
1973 641.00
1974 668.00
1975 688.00
1976 767.00
1978 761.00
1979 818.00
1980 781.00
1981 695.00
1982 793.00
1983 832.00
1984 810.00
1985 744.00
1986 758.00
1987 772.00
1990 689.00
1991 714.00
1992 784.00
1993 754.00
1994 701.00
1995 784.00
1996 804.00
1997 792.00
1998 752.00
1999 803.00
2000 754.00
2001 823.00
2002 773.00
2003 824.00
2004 843.00
2005 839.00
2006 760.00
2007 665.00
2008 665.00
2009 680.00
2010 677.00
2011 706.00
2012 816.00
2013 670.00
2014 782.00
2015 785.00
2018 781.00
2019 812.00
2020 779.00

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