EDUCATION
Number of general educational schools
(at the beginning of school year)

	2000/2001	2001/2002	2002/2003	2003/2004	2004/2005	2005/2006	2006/2007
Number of general educational schools - total	4561	4551	4555	4565	4553	4559	4538
including:
day	4548	4538	4542	4553	4544	4550	4529
of which:
state	4548	4538	4533	4542	4533	4538	4516
non-state	-	-	9	11	11	12	131)
state night (correspondence)	13	13	13	12	9	9	9

1)Besides there are 6 branches.

Number of pupils and teachers in general educational schools
(at the beginning of school year; person)

	2001/2002	2002/2003	2003/2004	2004/2005	2005/2006	2006/2007
Number of pupils in general schools - total	1686429	1708628	1689676	1634341	1586222	1537273
including:
day	1658570	1691562	1680424	1631567	1583628	1534580
of which:
state	1658570	1688189	1676196	1627057	1578579	1528533
non-state	-	3373	4228	4510	5049	6047
state night (correspondence)	27859	17066	9252	2774	2594	2693
Number of teachers in general schools (including substitute) - total	169280	169557	171763	173819	175154	177738
including:
state	169280	169075	171081	173088	174291	176741
non-state	-	482	682	731	863	997

Order of lessons in state day general education schools
(excluding special schools for children with limited health; at the beginning of school year)

	2000/2001	2001/2002	2002/2003	2003/2004	2004/2005	2005/2006	2006/2007
Number of general educational schools	4528	4518	4514	4522	4512	4517	4495
of which conducting lessons:
1 shift	1103	1179	1269	1320	1430	1743	1858
2 and 3 shifts	3425	3339	3245	3202	3082	2774	2637
as per cent to total number of schools:
1 shift	24.4	26.1	28.1	29.2	31.7	38.6	41.3
2 and 3 shifts	75.6	73.9	71.9	70.8	68.3	61.4	58.7
Number of pupils - total, person	1648540	1653217	1682574	1670302	1620371	1571566	1521544
of them pupils, person:
1 shift	1068270	1088585	1115009	1110328	1094314	1095228	1076698
2 and 3 shifts	580270	564632	567565	559974	526057	476338	444846
as per cent to total number of pupils:
1 shift	64.8	65.8	66.3	66.5	67.5	69.7	70.8
2 and 3 shifts	35.2	34.2	33.7	33.5	32.5	30.3	29.2

Graduates of general education schools (person)

	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
Number of pupils completed 9-th grade of general educational schools	68788	130659	161401	159190	150353	152690	158453
including:
day	67514	129440	160741	159016	150260	152514	158174
of which:
state	67514	129440	160318	158498	149705	151938	157463
non-state	-	-	423	518	555	576	711
state night (correspondence)	1274	1219	660	174	93	176	279
Number of pupils completed 11-th grade of general educational schools	105033	108221	59514	103425	128679	124152	117342
including:
day	94176	97942	50446	97098	122732	123480	116911
of which:
state	94176	97942	50200	96751	122370	123016	116375
non-state	-	-	246	347	362	464	536
state night (correspondence)	10857	10279	9068	6327	5947	672	431

Specialized secondary educational institutions (at the beginning of school year)

	2000/2001	2001/2002	2002/2003	2003/2004	2004/2005	2005/2006	2006/2007
Number of specialized secondary educational institutions - total	71	69	58	60	59	60	60
including:
state	68	66	55	55	55	56	56
non-state	3	3	3	5	4	4	4
Number of students - total, person	42612	49203	51410	53694	55794	57896	56872
including:
state	41173	47726	50266	52256	54173	55028	53745
of which educated by type of attendance:
day	33084	37503	38853	40649	43092	43303	41348
correspondence	8089	10223	11413	11607	11081	11725	12397
non-state	1439	1477	1144	1438	1621	2868	3127
of which educated by type of attendance:
day	1248	1275	970	1185	1361	2249	2373
correspondence	191	202	174	253	260	619	754
Number of students per 10000 population	54	61	64	66	68	69	68
including state	52	59	62	64	66	65	64
Number of women from total students:
person	29759	34668	35537	37337	38884	40415	40197
per cent	69.8	70.5	69.1	69.5	69.7	69.8	70.7
Number of professors- teachers personnel in specialized secondary educational institutions (key staff), person:
state	5316	5942	6217	6353	6819	6706	6897
non-state	145	171	147	151	209	107	152

Enrollment and graduates of secondary vocational educational institutions (person)

	2000/2001	2001/2002	2002/2003	2003/2004	2004/2005	2005/2006	2006/2007
Of specialized secondary educa-tional institutions new enrollment - total	14823	17363	15417	16477	16986	17330	15157
including:
state	14342	16906	15209	15856	16329	16079	14539
of which by type of attendance:
day	11926	14250	13065	13777	14518	13557	12203
correspondence	2416	2656	2144	2079	1811	2522	2336
non-state	481	457	208	621	657	1251	618
of which by type of attendance:
day	425	407	197	539	580	1025	459
correspondence	56	50	11	82	77	226	159
Graduates - total	11309	11428	12897	15100	14409	15796	16385
including:
state	10846	10939	12351	14587	14025	15302	15672
of which day attendance	8910	9054	10122	11109	10189	11599	12353
non-state	463	489	546	513	384	494	713
of which day attendance	463	452	506	462	323	407	595
Number of graduates of specialized secondary educational institutions per 10000 population	14	14	16	19	18	19	19
including state	14	14	15	18	17	18	19

Higher institutions
(at the beginning of school year)

	2000/2001	2001/2002	2002/2003	2003/2004	2004/2005	2005/2006	2006/2007
Number of institu-tions of higher education - total	43	40	41	42	42	42	42
including:
state	25	25	26	27	27	27	281)
non-state	18	15	15	15	15	15	14
Number of students- total, person	119683	120453	120039	121535	127248	129948	129141
including:
state	91019	98959	101676	104009	106020	105997	106882
of which educated by type of attendance:
day	74749	80349	81131	81100	81069	80510	81975
night	85	98	140	142	157	177	192
correspondence	16185	18512	20405	22767	24794	25310	24715
non-state	28664	21494	18363	17526	21228	23951	22259
of which educated by type of attendance:
day	21477	16602	13911	13138	13919	16477	16579
night	128	14	13	10	19	22	24
correspondence	7059	4878	4439	4378	7290	7452	5656
Number of students per 10000 population	150	150	149	149	155	154	154
including state	114	123	126	128	130	126	127
Number of women from total students
person	49858	53340	53789	56099	59755	62022	61265
per cent	41.7	44.3	44.8	46.2	47	47.7	47.4
Number of professsors-teachers personnel of higher educational institutions (key staff), person
state	10786	11216	11243	11303	11969	12455	12367
non-state	1698	1493	1579	1692	1661	1987	1991

1) Besides High Military School of General Troops, Baku High Marotime School, Azerbaijan High Military Aviation School, Baku High Polis Academy, Academy of National Security prepare highly educated specialists.

Enrollments of high schools and graduates of high vocational schools (person)
(nəfər)

	2000/2001	2001/2002	2002/2003	2003/2004	2004/2005	2005/2006	2006/2007
Number of new enrollments of higher education institutions - total	26403	26944	19681	25438	26988	28747	23873
including:
state	20498	23476	18094	21998	21493	23314	21158
of which by type of attendance:
day	17616	19606	14784	18111	17878	19577	17699
night	34	35	47	45	53	52	52
correspondence	2848	3835	3263	3842	3562	3685	3407
non-state	5905	3468	1587	3440	5495	5433	2715
of which by type of attendance:
day	4839	2928	1389	2792	4296	4708	2626
night	29	14	-	-	9	10	-
correspondence	1037	526	198	648	1190	715	89
Graduates - total	24488	23903	27795	28460	31232	32508	28141
including:
state	19631	19946	23008	24343	26197	27784	23999
of which day attendance	16621	17284	19227	20629	21770	22873	18159
non-state	4857	3957	4787	4117	5035	4724	4142
of which day attendance	3918	3022	3783	3284	3993	3140	2566
Number of graduates of higher institutions per 10000 population	31	30	35	35	38	39	33
including state	25	25	28	30	32	34	29

Number of foreign students educated in state and non-state higher educational institutions
(at the beginning of school year; person)

	2001/2002	2002/2003	2003/2004	2004/2005	2005/2006	2006/2007
Number of foreign students - total	1982	1864	1984	2521	3073	3690
including:
Belarus	-	-	3	-	5	5
Estonia	1	1	1	2	1	4
Georgia	247	120	90	109	236	92
Kazakhstan	3	3	9	15	23	18
Kirgizia	-	19	34	5	4	12
Lithuania	1	1	1	1	1	1
Moldova	-	3	6	11	11	7
Uzbekistan	-	2	7	2	5	11
Russia	386	150	305	506	169	150
Turkmenistan	5	16	24	33	53	59
Ukraine	2	5	15	8	6	10
USA	-	-	-	-	2	2
Germany	-	2	2	1	1	1
Angola	-	-	-	-	1	1
Bangladesh	1	1	-	-	-	-
United Arab Emirates	-	2	1	-	-	-
United Kingdom	-	-	-	-	1	1
Chinese People's Repub.	-	-	39	66	107	117
Afghanistan	32	24	12	6	1	4
Palestina	4	2	1	2	-	-
Ethiopia	-	-	-	-	-	1
India	1	1	2	9	18	32
Jordan	14	9	7	6	3	2
Iraq	1	5	2	2	8	21
Iran	78	87	102	150	237	424
Sweden	-	-	-	-	1	1
Israel	1	1	-	1	2	3
Canada	1	1	-	-	-	-
Cyprus	-	-	-	-	2	2
Democratic People's Republic of Korea	-	-	-	2	3	2
Lebanon	-	-	-	2	-	-
Libya	1	1	1	5	-	1
Malawi	-	-	-	-	-	1
Mauritius	-	-	-	-	1	1
Mexico	-	-	-	-	1	-
Morocco	-	-	-	2	2	2
Egypt	-	-	-	-	3	2
Nigeria	-	-	-	-	-	12
Norway	-	-	-	1	15	1
Oman	-	-	-	-	1	1
Pakistan	8	11	8	10	25	30
Saudi Arabia	-	-	-	2	1	1
Sudan	4	4	2	6	9	16
Syria	8	10	9	8	11	20
Tunisia	2	1	1	1	1	1
Turkey	1177	1376	1293	1541	2094	2612
Vietnam	3	2	1	1	-	-
Yemen	1	4	5	5	8	6
Japan	-	-	1	-	-	-

Provision of educational institutions with computer(on the base of survey data; November 2006)
(on the base of survey data; November 2006)

	Number of day general educational schools			Number of specialized secondary educational institutions			Number of higher educational institutions
	total	including		total	including		total	including
		state	non-state		state	non-state		state	non-state
Number of institutions-total	4529	4516	13	60	56	4	42	28	14
of which have computers:
total, unit	1283	1270	13	55	51	4	42	28	14
as pecent to total institutions	28,3	28,1	100,0	91,7	91,1	100,0	100,0	100,0	100,0
Number of computers (individual, notebook and etc.),unit	15793	15080	713	628	578	50	5168	3868	1300
of which have access to internet:
total, unit	1093	851	242	56	50	6	2039	1304	735
as pecent to total computers	6,9	5,6	33,9	8,9	8,7	12,0	39,5	33,7	56,5

Main indicators of post-graduate

	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
Total
Number of organizations with post-graduate courses	83	84	83	86	88	94	96
Number of post-graduate students, person	963	982	1059	1178	1318	1479	1705
Admission of post-graduate students, person	367	292	303	398	470	503	550
Post graduates completed their education, person	321	244	202	260	320	317	340
including those defended a dissertation	35	19	14	27	31	28	22
Research institutions
Number of organizations with post-graduate courses	65	66	65	64	65	69	70
Number of post-graduate students, person	479	519	540	630	736	839	956
Admission of post-graduate students, person	165	168	176	238	281	295	329
Post graduates completed their education, person	183	114	139	135	164	175	211
including those defended a dissertation	15	10	11	10	14	12	13
Higher Educational Institutions
Number of organizations with post-graduate courses	18	18	18	22	23	25	26
Number of post-graduate students, person	484	463	519	548	582	640	749
Admission of post-graduate students, person	202	124	127	160	189	208	221
Post graduates completed their education, person	138	130	63	125	156	142	129
including those defended a dissertation	20	9	3	17	17	16	9

Main indicators of doctor's degree

	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
Total
Number of organizations with courses doctor's degree	21	16	17	19	20	21	19
Number of persons work-ing for doctor's degree	47	40	58	57	68	80	80
Admission of doctor's degree, person	9	17	18	14	14	18	17
Graduates of doctor's degree, person	22	7	7	15	6	8	11
including those defended a dissertation	2	1	-	3	2	4	6
Research institutions
Number of organizations with courses doctor's degree	13	10	11	13	12	13	11
Number of persons work-ing for doctor's degree	18	19	29	33	40	51	54
Admission of doctor's degree, person	4	14	8	10	11	17	13
Graduates of doctor's degree, person	11	3	5	9	5	7	6
including those defended a dissertation	1	1	-	2	2	4	4
Higher Educational Institutions
Number of organizations with courses doctor's degree	8	6	6	6	8	8	8
Number of persons work-ing for doctor's degree	29	21	29	24	28	29	26
Admission of doctor's degree, person	5	3	10	4	3	1	4
Graduates of doctor's degree, person	11	4	2	6	1	1	5
including those defended a dissertation	1	-	-	1	-	-	2

Science expenditures from the state budget

	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
Science expenditures - total, mln. manat, t	9, 3	9, 4	11, 4	16,6	20	28,8	32
to GDP, in %	0,2	0,2	0,2	0,2	0,2	0,2	0.2
to state budget expenditures, in %	1,2	1,2	1,2	1,3	1,3	1,4	0.8

Public libraries (to the end of the year)

	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
Number of public libraries - total	4374	4152	4131	4124	4090	4004	4023
including:
urban	660	639	657	661	643	624	624
rural	3714	3513	3474	3463	3447	3380	3399
Stock of library - total, mln. copies	38.7	36.9	36.8	36.5	35.3	36.6	36.5
including:
urban	19.9	18.2	18.5	18.3	17.5	17.9	18
rural	18.8	18.7	18.3	18.2	17.8	18.7	18.5
Per 1000 population, copy	4867	4603	4559	4483	4287	4401	4339
urban	4922	4481	4484	4358	4120	4172	4152
rural	4811	4730	4635	4615	4464	4645	4537

Theatres (to the end of the year)

	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
Number of professional theatres - total	27	27	27	27	30 1)	30 1)	31 1)
including:
opera and ballet	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
drama, comedy and musical	20	20	20	20	21	21	22
child and young people's theatre	6	6	6	6	8	8	8
Number of visitors theatres:
thsd. person	925	837	827	714	604	544	495
per 1000 population	117	105	103	88	74	65	59

1)Since 2004 information of the Departmental of Culture of the Executive Body has been included. Prior to this time the information of the Ministry of Culture Azerbaijan Republic has been reflected in this collection.

Museums (to the end of the year)

	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
Number of museums - total	155	156	159	159	160	163	168
including:
history	14	14	14	14	14	15	17
memorial	32	33	33	33	34	34	35
local lore	63	63	65	65	65	66	67
art	37	37	38	38	38	38	38
other	9	9	9	9	9	10	11
Visitors museums:
thsd. person	1196	1121	1183	1131	1501	1477	1399
per 1000 population	151	140	147	139	183	176	167

Clubs (to the end of the year)

	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
Number of clubs - total	3354	3091	3077	3066	3030	2763	2759
including:
urban	432	414	418	407	657	393	395
rural	2922	2677	2659	2659	2373	2370	2364