Sub-Saharan Africa Compared by Education > Primary education, teachers
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DEFINITION:
Primary education, teachers. Teaching staff in primary. Public and private. Full and part-time. All programmes. Total is the total number of teachers in public and private primary education institutions. Teachers are 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) and persons who work occasionally or in a voluntary capacity in educational institutions.
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# | COUNTRY | AMOUNT | DATE | GRAPH | HISTORY |
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1 | Nigeria | 574,078 | 2010 | ||
2 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 345,486 | 2012 | ||
3 | Ethiopia | 270,375 | 2012 | ||
4 | South Africa | 237,429 | 2012 | ||
5 | Tanzania | 180,987 | 2012 | ||
6 | Uganda | 169,503 | 2011 | ||
7 | Kenya | 152,848 | 2009 | ||
8 | Sudan | 123,633 | 2009 | ||
9 | Ghana | 123,153 | 2012 | ||
10 | Madagascar | 102,229 | 2012 | ||
11 | Mozambique | 97,717 | 2012 | ||
12 | Angola | 93,734 | 2010 | ||
13 | Cameroon | 84,467 | 2012 | ||
14 | Cote d'Ivoire | 70,016 | 2012 | ||
15 | Zambia | 63,697 | 2012 | ||
16 | Zimbabwe | 61,251 | 2003 | ||
17 | Senegal | 56,284 | 2012 | ||
18 | Niger | 52,913 | 2012 | ||
19 | Malawi | 49,775 | 2012 | ||
20 | Burkina Faso | 48,592 | 2012 | ||
21 | Benin | 45,010 | 2012 | ||
22 | Mali | 43,629 | 2011 | ||
23 | Burundi | 42,052 | 2012 | ||
24 | Rwanda | 40,397 | 2012 | ||
25 | Sierra Leone | 37,957 | 2012 | ||
26 | Guinea | 36,731 | 2012 | ||
27 | Chad | 34,125 | 2012 | ||
28 | Togo | 32,825 | 2012 | ||
29 | Liberia | 25,137 | 2011 | ||
30 | Republic of the Congo | 16,527 | 2012 | ||
31 | Mauritania | 13,795 | 2012 | ||
32 | Botswana | 13,014 | 2009 | ||
33 | Gabon | 12,961 | 2011 | ||
34 | Somalia | 12,870 | 2007 | ||
35 | Lesotho | 11,200 | 2012 | ||
36 | Namibia | 10,213 | 2012 | ||
37 | Central African Republic | 8,267 | 2012 | ||
38 | Swaziland | 8,193 | 2011 | ||
39 | Eritrea | 8,166 | 2012 | ||
40 | The Gambia | 7,206 | 2012 | ||
41 | Mauritius | 5,427 | 2012 | ||
42 | Guinea-Bissau | 5,371 | 2010 | ||
43 | Comoros | 4,201 | 2011 | ||
44 | Equatorial Guinea | 3,517 | 2012 | ||
45 | Cape Verde | 2,956 | 2012 | ||
46 | Djibouti | 1,821 | 2012 | ||
47 | Sao Tome and Principe | 1,183 | 2012 | ||
48 | Seychelles | 656 | 2011 |