Zambia - Primary education, teachers

The value for Primary education, teachers in Zambia was 78,099 as of 2017. As the graph below shows, over the past 47 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 78,395 in 2014 and a minimum value of 14,708 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
1970 14,852
1971 14,708
1972 16,491
1973 16,920
1974 17,881
1975 18,096
1976 19,089
1977 19,441
1978 19,868
1979 22,470
1980 21,455
1981 22,258
1982 23,431
1983 25,697
1984 27,080
1985 27,302
1986 30,189
1987 30,534
1988 32,348
1990 33,200
1994 36,697
1995 38,528
1996 39,716
1998 35,386
1999 30,369
2000 31,870
2001 33,850
2002 36,008
2004 42,043
2005 45,554
2006 46,988
2007 50,409
2008 53,703
2010 54,716
2011 54,243
2012 63,697
2013 64,139
2014 78,395
2015 75,236
2016 73,949
2017 78,099

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