World - Primary education, teachers

The value for Primary education, teachers in World was 32,652,930 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 49 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 32,652,930 in 2019 and a minimum value of 14,300,970 in 1970.

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 14,300,970
1971 14,599,790
1972 15,302,540
1973 15,827,890
1974 16,277,950
1975 16,743,670
1976 17,155,080
1977 17,420,850
1978 17,601,150
1979 17,910,890
1980 18,534,790
1981 18,965,250
1982 19,461,060
1983 19,873,200
1984 20,173,350
1985 20,346,940
1986 20,790,330
1987 20,787,470
1988 21,172,100
1989 21,786,090
1990 22,003,500
1991 22,284,880
1992 22,547,230
1993 22,937,030
1994 23,295,870
1995 23,712,400
1996 24,005,090
1997 24,211,230
1998 24,475,480
1999 24,625,090
2000 24,993,660
2001 25,199,520
2002 25,166,930
2003 25,955,560
2004 26,608,510
2005 26,899,110
2006 27,107,700
2007 27,537,410
2008 27,786,180
2009 28,158,870
2010 28,644,660
2011 29,143,410
2012 29,387,110
2013 30,517,070
2014 30,809,250
2015 31,228,200
2016 31,912,290
2017 31,867,240
2018 31,962,270
2019 32,652,930

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