Africa Western and Central | Primary education, teachers
Primary education teachers includes full-time and part-time teachers. Development relevance: Women teachers are important as they serve as role models to girls and help to attract and retain girls in school. 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).
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Africa Western and Central
Records
63
Source
Africa Western and Central | Primary education, teachers
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1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970 211954.109375
1971 228868.9375
1972 245738.140625
1973 257307.234375
1974 263971.96875
1975 273933.28125
1976 286310.21875
1977 329530.6875
1978 415019.125
1979 467254.65625
1980 485837.75
1981 535217.625
1982 575553.625
1983 603329.0625
1984 607152.875
1985 591965.1875
1986 552754.1875
1987 543519.9375
1988 564639.625
1989 605515.375
1990 592426.5625
1991 621813.875
1992 658352.625
1993 705824.3125
1994 717758.875
1995 712939.3125
1996 713029.1875
1997 734152
1998 755270.6875
1999 787888.5
2000 810880.625
2001 877025.1875
2002 913853.3125
2003 1029283.8125
2004 1063725.5
2005 1103380.75
2006 1096711.375
2007 1049919.875
2008 1077850.875
2009 1162479
2010 1259986.625
2011 1402931.625
2012 1293540.625
2013 1538100.375
2014 1585247.125
2015 1638109.5
2016 1700442.875
2017 1798296
2018 1895281.75
2019 1861425.875
2020 1865933
2021 1961660
2022 2000104.875
Africa Western and Central | Primary education, teachers
Primary education teachers includes full-time and part-time teachers. Development relevance: Women teachers are important as they serve as role models to girls and help to attract and retain girls in school. 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).
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Africa Western and Central
Records
63
Source