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AZERBAIJAN IN FIGURES

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

  2000/2001 2002/2003 2003/2004 2004/20052005/2006 2006/2007 2007/2008
Number of general educational schools - total 4561 4555 4565 4553 4559 45384562
including:
day 4548 4542 4553 4544 4550 4529 4555
of which:
state 4548 4533 4542 4533 4538 4516 4538
non-state - 9 11 11 12 13 171)
state night (correspondence) 13 13 12 9 9 9 7
1)Besides there are 6 branches.

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

  2001/2002 2003/2004 2004/2005 2005/20062006/2007 2007/2008
Number of pupils in general schools - total 1686429 1689676 1634341 1586222 1537273 1490152
including:
day 1658570 1680424 1631567 1583628 1534580 1487477
of which:
state 1658570 1676196 1627057 1578579 1528533 1480636
non-state - 4228 4510 5049 6047 6841
state night (correspondence) 27859 9252 2774 2594 2693 2675
Number of teachers in general schools (including substitute) - total 169280 171763 173819 175154 177978 173012
including:
state 169280 171081 173088 174291 176981 171807
non-state - 682 731 863 997 1205

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 2002/2003 2003/2004 2004/20052005/2006 2006/2007 2007/2008
Number of general educational schools 4528 4514 4522 4512 4517 4495 4519
of which conducting lessons:
1 shift 1103 1269 1320 1430 1743 1858 2055
2 and 3 shifts 3425 3245 3202 3082 2774 2637 2464
as per cent to total number of schools:
1 shift 24,4 28,1 29,2 31,7 38,6 41,3 45,5
2 and 3 shifts 75,6 71,9 70,8 68,3 61,4 58,7 54,5
of them pupils, person:
1 shift 1068270 1115009 1110328 1094314 1095228 1076698 1095543
2 and 3 shifts 580270 567565 559974 526057 476338 444846 378643
as per cent to total number of pupils:
1 shift 64,8 66,3 66,5 67,5 69,7 70,8 74,3
2 and 3 shifts 35,2 33,7 33,5 32,5 30,3 29,2 25,7

Graduates of general education schools (person)

  2000 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
Number of pupils completed 9-th grade of general educational schools 68788 161401 159190 150353 152690 158453 154656
including:
day 67514 160741 159016 150260 152514 158174 154473
of which:
state 67514 160318 158498 149705 151938 157463 153677
non-state - 423 518 555 576 711 796
state night (correspondence) 1274 660 174 93 176 279 183
Number of pupils completed 11-th grade of general educational schools 105033 59514 103425 128679 124152 117356 117893
including:
day 94176 50446 97098 122732 123480 116925 117369
of which:
state 94176 50200 96751 122370 123016 116389 116812
non-state - 246 347 362 464 536 557
state night (correspondence) 10857 9068 6327 5947 672 431 524

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

  2000/2001 2002/2003 2003/2004 2004/20052005/2006 2006/2007 2007/2008
Number of specialized secondary educational institutions - total 71 58 60 59 60 60 60
including:
state 68 55 55 55 56 56 56
non-state 3 3 5 4 4 4 4
Number of students - total, person 42612 51410 53694 55794 57896 56872 53489
including:
state 41173 50266 52256 54173 55028 53745 51482
of which educated by type of attendance:
day 33084 38853 40649 43092 43303 41348 39300
correspondence 8089 11413 11607 11081 11725 12397 12182
non-state 1439 1144 1438 1621 2868 3127 2007
of which educated by type of attendance:
day 1248 970 1185 1361 2249 2373 1425
correspondence 191 174 253 260 619 754 582
Number of students per 10000 population 54 64 66 68 70 68 63
including state 52 62 64 66 66 64 60
person 29759 35537 37337 38884 40415 40197 37629
per cent 69,8 69,1 69,5 69,7 69,8 70,7 70,3
Number of professors- teachers personnel in specialized secondary educational institutions (key staff), person:
state 5316 6217 6353 6819 6706 6897 6883
non-state 145 147 151 209 107 152 111

Enrollment and graduates of secondary vocational educational institutions (person)

  2000/2001 2002/2003 2003/2004 2004/20052005/2006 2006/2007 2007/2008
Of specialized secondary educational institutions new enrollment - total 14823 15417 16477 16986 17330 15157 13679
including:
state 14342 15209 15856 16329 16079 14539 13679
of which by type of attendance:
day 11926 13065 13777 14518 13557 12203 11878
correspondence 2416 2144 2079 1811 2522 2336 1801
non-state 481 208 621 657 1251 618 -
of which by type of attendance:
day 425 197 539 580 1025 459 -
correspondence 56 11 82 77 226 159 -
Graduates - total 11309 12897 15100 14409 15796 16385 17007
including:
state 10846 12351 14587 14025 15302 15672 15993
of which day attendance 8910 10122 11109 10189 11599 12353 12438
non-state 463 546 513 384 494 713 1014
of which day attendance 463 506 462 323 407 595 800
Number of graduates of specialized secondary educational institutions per 10000 population 14 16 19 18 19 20 20
including state 14 15 18 17 18 19 19

Higher institutions
(at the beginning of school year)

  2000/2001 2002/2003 2003/2004 2004/20052005/2006 2006/2007 2007/2008
Number of institutions of higher education - total 43 41 42 42 42 42 42
including:
state 25 26 27 27 27 28 281)
non-state 18 15 15 15 15 14 14
Number of students- total, person 119683 120039 121535 127248 129948 129141 130430
including:
state 91019 101676 104009 106020 105997 106882 108238
of which educated by type of attendance:
day 74749 81131 81100 81069 80510 81975 83811
night 85 140 142 157 177 192 211
correspondence 16185 20405 22767 24794 25310 24715 24216
non-state 28664 18363 17526 21228 23951 22259 22192
of which educated bytype of attendance:
day 21477 13911 13138 13919 16477 16579 16949
night 128 13 10 19 22 24 25
correspondence 7059 4439 4378 7290 7452 5656 5218
Number of students per 10000 population 150 149 149 155 156 154 153
including state 114 126 128 129 127 127 127
Number of women from total students:
person 49858 53789 56099 59755 62022 61265 61172
per cent 41,7 44,8 46,2 47,0 47,7 47,4 46,9
Number of professsors-teachers personnel of higher educational institutions (key staff), person
state 10786 11243 11303 11969 12455 12367 11855
non-state 1698 1579 1692 1661 1987 1991 1883
1) Besides the preparation of higher educated specialists is realised by Military School of General Troops, Baku High Marotime School, Azerbaijan High Military Aviation School, Baku High Polis Academy, Academy of State Border Service of the Republic of Azerbaijan and Academy of National Security

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

  2000/2001 2002/2003 2003/2004 2004/20052005/2006 2006/2007 2007/2008
Number of new enrollments of higher education institutions - total 26403 19681 25438 26988 28747 23873 25846
including:
state 20498 18094 21998 21493 23314 21158 23139
of which by type of attendance:
day 17616 14784 18111 17878 19577 17699 19599
night 34 47 45 53 52 52 66
correspondence 2848 3263 3842 3562 3685 3407 3474
non-state 5905 1587 3440 5495 5433 2715 2707
of which by type of attendance:
day 4839 1389 2792 4296 4708 2626 2597
night 29 - - 9 10 - -
correspondence 1037 198 648 1190 715 89 110
Graduates - total 24488 27795 28460 31232 32508 28141 31279
including:
state 19631 23008 24343 26197 27784 23999 26875
of which day attendance 16621 19227 20629 21770 22873 18159 20572
non-state 4857 4787 4117 5035 4724 4142 4404
of which day attendance 3918 3783 3284 3993 3140 2566 3066
Number of graduates of higher institutions per 10000 population 31 35 35 38 39 34 37
including state 25 28 30 32 34 29 32

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

  2001/2002 2003/2004 2004/20052005/2006 2006/2007 2007/2008
Number of foreign students - total 1982 1984 2521 3073 3690 5014
including:
Belarus - 3 - 5 5 5
Estonia 1 1 2 1 4 5
Georgia 247 90 109 236 92 82
Kazakhstan 3 9 15 23 18 12
Kirgizia - 34 5 4 12 3
Lithuania 1 1 1 1 1 -
Moldova - 6 11 11 7 7
Uzbekistan - 7 2 5 11 30
Russia 386 305 506 169 150 157
Tajikistan - - - - - 1
Turkmenistan 5 24 33 53 59 84
Ukraine 2 15 8 6 10 8
USA - - - 2 2 2
Germany - 2 1 1 1 1
Angola - - - 1 1 1
Bangladesh 1 - - - - 3
United Arab Emirates - 1 - - - -
United Kingdom - - - 1 1 1
Chinese People's Repub. - 39 66 107 117 153
Afghanistan 32 12 6 1 4 2
Palestina 4 1 2 - - -
Ethiopia - - - - 1 -
India 1 2 9 18 32 50
Jordan 14 7 6 3 2 9
Iraq 1 2 2 8 21 52
Iran 78 102 150 237 424 953
Sweden - - - 1 1 1
Israel 1 - 1 2 3 4
Canada 1 - - - - 1
Cyprus - - - 2 2 3
Democratic People's Republic of Korea - - 2 3 2 3
Lebanon - - 2 - - -
Libya 1 1 5 - 1 -
Malawi - - - - 1 4
Mauritius - - - 1 1 1
Mexico - - - 1 - -
Morocco - - 2 2 2 2
Egypt - - - 3 2 5
Nigeria - - 1 15 12 16
Norway - - - 1 1 1
Oman - - - - 1 1
Pakistan 8 8 10 25 30 24
Saudi Arabia - - 2 1 1 1
Sudan 4 2 6 9 16 18
Syria 8 9 8 11 20 20
Tunisia 2 1 1 1 1  
Turkey 1177 1293 1541 2094 2612 3283
Vietnam 3 1 1 - - -
Yemen 1 5 5 8 6 5
Japan - 1 - - - -

Main indicators of post-graduate

  2000 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
Total
Number of organizations with post-graduate courses 83 83 86 88 94 96 96
Number of post-graduate students, person 963 1059 1178 1318 1479 1705 1681
Admission of post-graduate students, person 367 303 398 470 503 550 452
Post graduates completed their education, person 321 202 260 320 317 340 431
including those defended a dissertation 35 14 27 31 28 22 31
Research institutions
Number of organizations with post-graduate courses 65 65 64 65 69 70 70
Number of post-graduate students, person 479 540 630 736 839 956 941
Admission of post-graduate students, person 165 176 238 281 295 329 259
Post graduates completed their education, person 183 139 135 164 175 211 261
including those defended a dissertation 15 11 10 14 12 13 14
Higher Educational Institutions
Number of organizations with post-graduate courses 18 18 22 23 25 26 26
Number of post-graduate students, person 484 519 548 582 640 749 740
Admission of post-graduate students, person 202 127 160 189 208 221 193
Post graduates completed their education, person 138 63 125 156 142 129 170
including those defended a dissertation 20 3 17 17 16 9 17

Main indicators of doctor's degree

  2000 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
Total
Number of organizations with courses doctor's degree 21 17 19 20 21 19 24
Number of persons work-ing for doctor's degree 47 58 57 68 80 80 83
Admission of doctor's degree, person 9 18 14 14 18 17 19
Graduates of doctor's degree, person 22 7 15 6 8 11 20
including those defended a dissertation 2 - 3 2 4 6 7
Research institutions
Number of organizations with courses doctor's degree 13 11 13 12 13 11 13
Number of persons working for doctor's degree 18 29 33 40 51 54 53
Admission of doctor's degree, person 4 8 10 11 17 13 12
Graduates of doctor's degree, person 11 5 9 5 7 6 15
including those defended a dissertation 1 - 2 2 4 4 6
Higher Educational Institutions
Number of organizations with courses doctor's degree 8 6 6 8 8 8 11
Number of persons working for doctor's degree 29 29 24 28 29 26 30
Admission of doctor's degree, person 5 10 4 3 1 4 7
Graduates of doctor's degree, person 11 2 6 1 1 5 5
including those defended a dissertation 1 - 1 - - 2 1

Science expenditures from the state budget

  2000 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
Science expenditures - total, mln. manat, 9, 3 11, 4 16,6 20,0 28,8 32 43.9
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 1,3 1,3 1,3 0.8 0.7

Public libraries (to the end of the year)

  2000 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
Number of public libraries - total 4374 4131 4124 4090 4004 4021 4021
including:
urban 660 657 661 643 624 622 622
rural 3714 3474 3463 3447 3380 3399 3399
Stock of library - total, mln. copies 38,7 36,8 36,5 35,3 36.6 36.4 36.4
including:
urban 19,9 18,5 18,3 17,5 17.9 17.9 17.9
rural 18,8 18,3 18,2 17,8 18.7 18.5 18.5
Per 1000 population, copy 4867 4559 4483 4287 4401 4286 4286
urban 4922 4484 4358 4120 4172 4089 4089
rural 4811 4635 4615 4464 4645 4504 4504

Theatres (to the end of the year)

  2000 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
Number of professional theatres - total 27 27 27 301) 301) 311) 311)
including:
opera and ballet 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
drama, comedy and musical 20 20 20 21 21 22 22
child and young people's theatre 6 6 6 8 8 8 8
Number of visitors theatres:
thsd. person 925 827 714 604 544 495 529
per 1000 population 117 103 88 74 66 59 62
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 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
Number of museums - total 155 159 159 160 163 168 192
including:
history 14 14 14 14 15 17 37
memorial 32 33 33 34 34 35 36
local lore 63 65 65 65 66 67 69
art 37 38 38 38 38 38 39
other 9 9 9 9 10 11 11
Visitors museums:
thsd. person 1196 1183 1131 1501 1477 1399 1391
per 1000 population 151 147 139 183 179 167 162

Clubs (to the end of the year)

  2000 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
Number of clubs - total 3354 3077 3066 3030 2763 2759 2759
including:
urban 432 418 407 657 393 394 394
rural 2922 2659 2659 2373 2370 2365 2365

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