Zimbabwe - Primary education, teachers

The value for Primary education, teachers in Zimbabwe was 75,960 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 47 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 75,960 in 2020 and a minimum value of 18,483 in 1979.

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
1973 19,338
1974 20,540
1975 21,202
1976 21,792
1977 22,214
1978 22,555
1979 18,483
1980 28,118
1981 37,773
1982 45,467
1983 52,502
1984 54,086
1985 56,067
1986 58,257
1987 57,120
1988 57,762
1989 58,362
1990 59,154
1991 58,436
1992 60,834
1993 61,506
1995 63,475
1996 63,718
1997 63,900
1998 66,583
1999 59,973
2000 66,440
2001 66,529
2002 60,869
2003 61,251
2012 74,355
2013 73,148
2015 75,072
2016 72,408
2017 71,242
2018 72,512
2019 75,183
2020 75,960

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