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Cameroon: Teachers in tertiary education programmes, both sexes

7568count · 2018+139.0% since 2003

Total number of teachers in public and private tertiary education institutions (ISCED 5-8). 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. Annual figures for Cameroon from 1971 to 2018.

19712018

Every year

YearValue (count)Note
20187,568
20146,690
20136,127
20125,695
20114,356
20104,235
20083,834
20073,040
20053,173
20042,993
20033,166
20023,024
20012,926
20003,011
19992,645
19911,086
1987984
1980410
1973328
1972278
1971220

Source

Published by World Bank, produced by UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-07.

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World Bank (2026). Teachers in tertiary education programmes, both sexes. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-teachers-in-tertiary-education-programmes-both-sexes (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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