Convention on the Rights of the Child

Table 54

Growth in number of classroom teachers in mainstream schools by level of school and gender during school years 2001/02–2008/09³⁰

Description		2001/02	2002/03	2003/04	2004/05	2005/06	2006/07	2008/09
Basic	Males	100 612	101 715	104 441	104 673	110 089	112 192	113 501
	Females	28 727	29 021	30 779	31 934	34 992	37 632	41 696
	Total__129_339__130_736__135_220'>Total	129 339	130 736	135 220	136 616	145 081	149 824	155 197
Secondary	Males	13 973	14 001	13 961	14 033	13 719	13 963	14 201
	Females	4 093	4 135	4 345	4 526	4 923	5 132	5 400
	Total__17_877__18_022__17_991'>Total	18 066	18 136	18 306	18 559	19	19 095	19 601
Basic + secondary	Males	16 259	16 297	16 019	16 312	18 107	17 707	18 857
	Females	1 618	1 705	1 972	2 014	2 263	2 518	3 152
	Total	17 877	18 022	17 991	18 326	20 377	20 255	22 009
Total	Males	130 844	132 013	134 421	135 018	141 915	143 862	146 559
	Females	34 438	34 861	37 096	38 483	42 178	45 282	50 248
Grand total		165 282	166 874	171 517	173 501	165 470	189 144	196 807