World Bank World Development Indicators, series SE.PRM.TCHR, SE.SEC.TCHR and SE.PRM.TCAQ.ZS for the Syrian Arab Republic, sourced upstream to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Source ID
SRC-305
Citation
World Bank World Development Indicators, series SE.PRM.TCHR, SE.SEC.TCHR and SE.PRM.TCAQ.ZS for the Syrian Arab Republic, sourced upstream to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Official statistical series, international institution
Hierarchy tier
2
Published
2024
Accessed
2026-08-20
Snapshot
Retrieved 20 August 2026 from the World Bank indicator API, three series, full observation sets archived as JSON. research/ is not committed
Claims
CH7 teacher headcount, and the state of the education statistics series
Status
READ
Version history
The register keeps changing after the book is fixed in print. Each entry below was added to this row in the order shown.
GATE ITEM D4, PART MADE, AND IT WITHDRAWS AN ABSENCE THE CHAPTER ASSERTS. Chapter 7 v1 and the retrieval gate both record that no opened document gives a teacher headcount. ONE DOES, and it was found on a route the gate itself named, the education statistics of an international body, which had not been run. THE HEADCOUNTS. PRIMARY EDUCATION TEACHERS: 146,383 in 2023 and 144,621 in 2024. SECONDARY EDUCATION TEACHERS: 53,486 in 2023 and 54,596 in 2024. Adding the two for 2024 gives 199,217, WHICH IS THIS PROJECT'S ARITHMETIC AND NOT THE PUBLISHER'S, and must be labelled wherever used. [STRUCK 18 OCTOBER 2026 (D-304 item 1, T-5) AND QUOTED: 'THE SERIES HAS A TWENTY-ONE-YEAR HOLE AND THAT IS THE BETTER FINDING.' THE HOLE IS THE INSTITUTE'S SERIES' AND NOT SYRIA'S COUNTING: see the reading of 18 October 2026.] Primary teachers are reported annually from 1971 to 2002, THEN NOTHING UNTIL 2023. Secondary teachers show the same 2003 to 2022 gap [and also lack 1981 and 1998, added 18 October 2026, T-1]. [STRUCK 18 OCTOBER 2026 (T-5; withdrawn 16 October by A7-1 and D7-13) AND QUOTED: 'So the counting stopped when the war began and resumed for 2023, and the chapter's theme is not that nobody counts teachers but that nobody counted them for two decades and has just started again.'] AND THE TRAINED SHARE HAS COLLAPSED. Trained teachers in primary education as a percentage of total teachers: 89.2 per cent in 2000, 88.0 in 2001, 88.4 in 2002; 43.1 per cent in 2023 and 38.3 per cent in 2024. [STRUCK 18 OCTOBER 2026 (D-304 item 1, T-2, T-5) AND QUOTED: 'A headcount that holds roughly steady while the trained share falls by fifty points is a different problem from a shortage of bodies, and it bears directly on the chapter's argument about capacity rather than numbers.' THE TRUE FORM: on the Institute's figures primary teachers rose about a quarter from 2002 to 2024 and secondary teachers fell about a sixth (26.1 and 16.3 per cent, my arithmetic), while the trained share of primary teachers fell from 88.4 to 38.3 per cent.] WHAT IS STILL NOT MADE, AND THE ROW SEPARATES IT DELIBERATELY: THERE IS STILL NO VACANCY RATE. A headcount is not an establishment figure and neither is a vacancy. The chapter may now print teacher numbers and may NOT say how many posts are unfilled. PROVENANCE AND ITS LIMIT. This is the World Bank's indicator service, whose upstream for these series is the UNESCO Institute for Statistics. THE UIS PORTAL ITSELF WAS NOT QUERIED and that route remains untried; the figures should be checked against it before print, because a redistributor is not the compiler. THE 2023 AND 2024 OBSERVATIONS ALSO SPAN A CHANGE OF GOVERNMENT and the publisher does not say which authority reported them, so no inference about who did the counting may be drawn.
THE VACANCY LIMB IS NOW A DOCUMENTED ABSENCE RATHER THAN AN UNSUPPORTED ONE, 20 AUGUST 2026. A vacancy rate needs an establishment figure, the count of posts, against which filled posts can be set. THE ONE ENACTED SYRIAN BUDGET INSTRUMENT THIS PROJECT HOLDS CARRIES NO SUCH FIGURE. SRC-262, the expenditure schedule annexed to Law No. 37 of 2009, all 57 pages, was searched on 20 August 2026 for the establishment vocabulary: الملاك and ملاك (cadre or establishment), عدد العاملين (number of workers), الشواغر and شاغر (vacancies, vacant), الوظائف and وظيفة (posts, post). ZERO OCCURRENCES OF ANY OF THE SEVEN. THAT IS THE CHAPTER'S THESIS IN ONE FACT, AND IT IS SHARPER THAN THE ABSENCE IT REPLACES: the budget law that states salaries, wages and compensations to the thousand of a pound DOES NOT SAY HOW MANY PEOPLE THOSE SALARIES ARE FOR. Money without a headcount, in the same schedule that foots exactly. SO WHAT PROSE MAY NOW SAY is that no vacancy rate can be computed because the enacted schedule carries appropriations and no post counts, naming that schedule as the scope. WHAT PROSE MAY NOT SAY is that Syria publishes no establishment figures anywhere, because the 2026 budget law is not held and the Ministry of Education's own staffing return is reachable only through a site that renders by script.
THE ESTABLISHMENT STRINGS AS RUN, AND WHAT CHAPTER 7's TWO FORMS NAME, 2 OCTOBER 2026. The seven strings above are the first run of 20 August 2026. The figures pass of the same day (audits/reports/07-people-and-capacity_v2_figures_pass.md §4.23) re-ran the search over the 57 pages, normalised, with positive controls in the same text: الرواتب 8, الأجور 1, وزارة 70, الموازنة 68, مجلس 20, الدفاع 4, التعويضات 9. Its substring-tolerant and anagram-tolerant pass over all 4,283 distinct Arabic tokens names ملاك, وظيفة, وظائف, شاغر, شواغر and كادر. So كادر, the second Arabic word for cadre, was searched that day as a bare string and returned zero, although this row did not list it. On 2 October 2026 I re-ran the search over the same file for eleven strings, each bare and each with the article: ملاك, الملاك, كادر, الكادر, عدد العاملين, شواغر, الشواغر, شاغر, وظائف, الوظائف, وظيفة. Each returned zero, and the seven controls gave the figures pass's counts exactly. A bare string also finds its form with the article. The searches as run therefore cover cadre in both its Arabic words, ملاك and كادر, each with and without the article. Those two words are what Chapter 7 line 21 names by 'cadre in either of its two forms', and the Arabic edition prints them as «ملاك» and «كادر». The reading note of 21 September 2026 lists the bare forms, which is the figures pass's list and not this row's. LIMIT, stated and not resolved: the search is of the issue's text layer, and ten of its 57 pages carry fewer than 200 characters of it (PDF pages 2, 9 to 12, 44, 45, 52, 54 and 55). These are the index page, the cover and title pages of the budget and of its two schedules, and pages of the revenue schedule.
READING OF 16 OCTOBER 2026 (article 7, audits/reports/article07_review_2026-10-16/REGISTER_PASS.md): THE UIS PORTAL WAS QUERIED, research/PART7_RECHECK_2026-10-16/UIS_*.json and WB_*.json. Values identical to the World Bank's (WDI lastupdated 2026-10-08). Every Syrian observation 1999 to 2024 is footnoted 'Country's submission to UIS SFE Questionnaire A'. Reference year = the year the school year ends (2024 = September 2023 to June 2024). The 2023 values are present in UIS version 20240910 (10 September 2024), the earliest listed, so the series resumed before the change of government; the 2024 values first appear in 20250225. TRTP.1 is named 'Proportion of teachers with the minimum required qualifications in primary education'; limitation: 'National minimum training requirements can vary widely from one country to the next'. SE.PRM.TCHR 2002 = 114,676 against 144,621 in 2024 (+26.1 per cent, author's arithmetic); SE.SEC.TCHR 2002 = 65,218 against 54,596. CHAPTER 7 L.105 'roughly where it was' is put to the author. 'SPAN A CHANGE OF GOVERNMENT' above is withdrawn on the reference-year convention.
A7-1 / R-1 (audits/reports/article07_review_2026-10-16/REMEDIATION.md): THE 20 AUGUST SENTENCE 'So the counting stopped when the war began and resumed for 2023' IS WITHDRAWN. It is wrong on this row's own data (the gap begins in 2003, the war in 2011) and the gap is in the institute's series, not plainly in Syria's counting: the CBS Statistical Abstracts 2016 to 2019 (SRC-783) give a pupils-per-teacher ratio in basic education for each year 2015 to 2018, from the Ministry of Education's data. PROSE MAY SAY the institute's series has no figure for 2003 to 2022; MAY NOT SAY that Syria stopped counting its teachers.
D7-13 (audits/reports/article07_review_2026-10-16/REMEDIATION_2.md): THE WHOLE 20 AUGUST SENTENCE IS WITHDRAWN: 'So the counting stopped when the war began and resumed for 2023, and the chapter's theme is not that nobody counts teachers but that nobody counted them for two decades and has just started again.' 'A headcount that holds roughly steady while the trained share falls by fifty points' is PUT TO THE AUTHOR (Chapter 7 correction, D-304 item 1): primary teachers rose 26.1 per cent from 2002 to 2024 on this row's own data.
D-304/D-307 series corrections (07), 18 October 2026: READING OF 18 OCTOBER 2026 (Chapter 7 v54, D-304 item 1, VERIFY.md T-1, T-2, T-4 and T-5; the three JSON files parsed again): SE.PRM.TCHR has a value for every year 1971 to 2002 and none for 2003 to 2022; SE.SEC.TCHR has none for 1981, 1998 or 2003 to 2022, so ANNUALLY IS TRUE OF THE PRIMARY SERIES ONLY. Primary 114,676 (2002) to 144,621 (2024) is +26.1 per cent; secondary 65,218 to 54,596 is -16.3 per cent (both my arithmetic). THREE STATEMENTS OF 20 AUGUST 2026 ARE STRUCK IN PLACE by the brackets in register_strikes.json of this unit and quoted here: 'THE SERIES HAS A TWENTY-ONE-YEAR HOLE AND THAT IS THE BETTER FINDING.' (the hole is the Institute's: the Central Bureau of Statistics printed primary and basic-education teacher counts for 2002 to 2006 and a pupils-per-teacher ratio for 2010 to 2018, SRC-785 and SRC-783); 'So the counting stopped when the war began and resumed for 2023, and the chapter's theme is not that nobody counts teachers but that nobody counted them for two decades and has just started again.' (already withdrawn on 16 October; now struck where it stands); 'A headcount that holds roughly steady while the trained share falls by fifty points' (primary rose about a quarter and secondary fell about a sixth; the author's ruling on it is D-304 item 1). A 2002 COUNT FROM THIS ROW IS THE INSTITUTE'S AND MUST BE SAID TO BE: the Bureau's count for the same year and the same six grades is 128,903, 12.4 per cent higher (SRC-785; T-4). PROSE MAY SAY the Institute's series has no Syrian figure for 2003 to 2022; MAY NOT SAY that Syria stopped counting its teachers, or that the headcount is roughly where it was. Chapter 7 v54 l.101 to l.105 carry this.