The bar chart provides information about how many hours each teacher in Primary, Lower Secondary, and Upper Secondary taught per year across four countries in 2001.
Overall, teachers in Upper Secondary accounted for the largest number of teaching hours in almost all nations, except for Ireland. It is also clear that teachers in the USA worked significantly more than those in other countries.
In terms of Japan and Spain, the number of hours that each teacher in Primary and Lower Secondary teaching taught were similar figures, at exactly 600 hours in 2001. However, in Upper Secondary, there was a significant difference in teaching hours between two countries, with Spain’s teacher teaching making up nearly 1000 hours, around 300 more than Japan.
Regarding the remaining countries, the disparity in teaching hours was obvious. In 2001, upper secondary school teachers in the USA taught around 1100 hours per year, followed closely by lower secondary school teachers, who did only slightly fewer than 1100 hours, compared to less than 990 hours being done by primary school teachers. In Ireland, both upper and lower secondary school teachers taught approximately 800 hours per year, while their primary school counterparts did around 600.