Turkey - Primary education, teachers

The value for Primary education, teachers in Turkey was 300,732 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 48 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 319,369 in 2012 and a minimum value of 132,577 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 132,577
1972 141,219
1973 158,299
1974 156,476
1975 160,271
1976 171,032
1977 182,314
1978 184,123
1979 187,027
1981 212,456
1982 212,795
1983 211,461
1984 208,891
1985 209,395
1986 212,717
1987 216,859
1988 220,943
1989 220,947
1990 224,672
1991 225,852
1992 234,961
1993 235,721
1994 237,943
1995 233,073
2012 319,369
2013 282,043
2014 288,444
2015 295,252
2017 292,878
2018 297,176
2019 300,732

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