West Bank and Gaza - Primary education, teachers

The value for Primary education, teachers in West Bank and Gaza was 23,458 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 21 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 23,458 in 2020 and a minimum value of 9,753 in 1999.

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
1999 9,753
2000 10,766
2001 10,501
2002 13,315
2003 12,022
2004 14,049
2005 15,789
2006 11,806
2007 12,752
2008 13,448
2009 14,136
2010 14,491
2011 16,042
2012 17,375
2013 18,242
2014 18,620
2015 18,759
2016 19,267
2017 19,298
2018 19,964
2019 21,621
2020 23,458

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