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AZERBAIJAN IN FIGURES

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

  2000/2001 2003/2004 2004/2005 2005/20062006/2007 2007/2008 2008/2009
Number of general educational schools - total 4561 4565 4553 4559 4538 4562 4557
including:
day 4548 4553 4544 4550 4529 4555 4550
of which:
state 4548 4542 4533 4538 4516 4538 4533
non-state - 11 11 12 13 17 171)
state night (correspondence) 13 12 9 9 9 7 7
1)Besides there are 6 branches.

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

  2000/2001 2003/2004 2004/2005 2005/20062006/2007 2007/2008 2008/2009
Number of pupils in general schools - total 1689682 1689676 1634341 1586222 1537273 1490152 1431515
including:
day 1653703 1680424 1631567 1583628 1534580 1487477 1428859
of which:
state 1653703 1676196 1627057 1578579 1528533 1480636 1421697
non-state - 4228 4510 5049 6047 6841 7162
state night (correspondence) 35979 9252 2774 2594 2693 2675 2656
Number of teachers in general schools (without substitute) - total 161492 169398 169565 171788 175423 176344 174378
including:
state 161492 168740 168860 170970 174508 175221 173226
non-state - 658 705 818 915 1123 1152

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 2003/2004 2004/2005 2005/20062006/2007 2007/2008 2008/2009
Number of general educational
schools 		4528 4522 4512 4517 4495 4519 4514
of which conducting lessons:
1 shift 1103 1320 1430 1743 1858 2055 2282
2 and 3 shifts 3425 3202 3082 2774 2637 2464 2232
as per cent to total number of schools:
1 shift 24.4 29.2 31.7 38.6 41.3 45.5 50.6
2 and 3 shifts 75.6 70.8 68.3 61.4 58.7 54.5 49.4
Number of pupils - total, person 1648540 1670302 1620371 1571566 1521544 1474186 1415249
of them pupils, person:
1 shift 1068270 1110328 1094314 1095228 1076698 1095543 1079183
2 and 3 shifts 580270 559974 526057 476338 444846 378643 336066
as per cent to total number of pupils:
1 shift 64.8 66.5 67.5 69.7 70.8 74.3 76.4
2 and 3 shifts 35.2 33.5 32.5 30.3 29.2 25.7 23.6

Graduates of general education schools (person)

  2000 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Number of graduates of main schools - total 68788 159190 150353 152690 158453 154656 150655
including:
day 67514 159016 150260 152514 158174 154473 150444
of which:
state 67514 158498 149705 151938 157463 153677 149596
non-state - 518 555 576 711 796 848
state night (correspondence) 1274 174 93 176 279 183 211
Number of graduates of secondary
schools - total 		105033 103425 128679 124152 117356 117893 118446
including:
day 94176 97098 122732 123480 116925 117369 118135
of which:
state 94176 96751 122370 123016 116389 116812 117535
non-state - 347 362 464 536 557 600
state night (correspondence) 10857 6327 5947 672 431 524 311

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

  2000/2001 2003/2004 2004/2005 2005/20062006/2007 2007/2008 2008/2009
Number of specialized secondary educational institutions - total 71 60 59 60 60 60 60
including:
state 68 55 55 56 56 56 56
non-state 3 5 4 4 4 4 4
Number of students - total, person 42612 53694 55794 57896 56872 53489 52579
including:
state 41173 52256 54173 55028 53745 51482 51596
of which educated by type of attendance:
day 33084 40649 43092 43303 41348 39300 39268
correspondence 8089 11607 11081 11725 12397 12182 12328
non-state 1439 1438 1621 2868 3127 2007 983
of which educated by type of attendance:
day 1248 1185 1361 2249 2373 1425 624
correspondence 191 253 260 619 754 582 359
Number of students per
10000 population 		54 66 68 70 68 63 61
including state 52 64 66 66 64 60 60
Number of women from total students:
person 29759 37337 38884 40415 40197 37629 36276
per cent 69.8 69.5 69.7 69.8 70.7 70.3 69.0
Number of professors- teachers personnel in specialized secondary educational institutions (key staff), person:
state 5316 6353 6819 6706 6897 6883 6929
non-state 145 151 209 107 152 111 74

Enrollment and graduates of secondary vocational educational institutions (person)

  2000/2001 2003/2004 2004/2005 2005/20062006/2007 2007/2008 2008/2009
Of specialized secondary educational institutions new enrollment - total 14823 16477 16986 17330 15157 13679 15681
including:
state 14342 15856 16329 16079 14539 13679 15681
of which by type of attendance:
day 11926 13777 14518 13557 12203 11878 13274
correspondence 2416 2079 1811 2522 2336 1801 2407
non-state 481 621 657 1251 618 - -
of which by type of attendance:
day 425 539 580 1025 459 - -
correspondence 56 82 77 226 159 - -
Graduates - total 11309 15100 14409 15796 16385 17007 17278
including:
state 10846 14587 14025 15302 15672 15993 16286
of which day attendance 8910 11109 10189 11599 12353 12438 12412
non-state 463 513 384 494 713 1014 992
of which day attendance 463 462 323 407 595 800 768
Number of graduates of specialized secondary educational institutions per 10000 population 14 19 18 19 20 20 20
including state 14 18 17 18 19 19 19

Higher institutions
(at the beginning of school year)

  2000/2001 2003/2004 2004/2005 2005/20062006/2007 2007/2008 2008/2009
Number of institutions of higher education - total1) 47 47 47 47 47 48 48
including:
state 29 32 32 32 33 34 34
non-state 18 15 15 15 14 14 14
Number of students - total, person 119683 121535 127248 129948 129141 130430 136587
including:
state 91019 104009 106020 105997 106882 108238 115994
of which educated by type of attendance:
day 74749 81100 81069 80510 81975 83811 90539
night 85 142 157 177 192 211 225
correspondence 16185 22767 24794 25310 24715 24216 25230
non-state 28664 17526 21228 23951 22259 22192 20593
of which educated by type of attendance:
day 21477 13138 13919 16477 16579 16949 16842
night 128 10 19 22 24 25 10
correspondence 7059 4378 7290 7452 5656 5218 3741
Number of students per 10000 population 150 149 155 156 154 153 159
including state 114 128 129 127 127 127 135
Number of women from total students:
person 49858 56099 59755 62022 61265 61172 62394
per cent 41.7 46.2 47.0 47.7 47.4 46.9 45.7
Number of professsors-teachers personnel of higher educational institutions (key staff), person
state 10786 11303 11969 12455 12367 11855 12855
non-state 1698 1692 1661 1987 1991 1883 1968
1)Including specialized higher educational schools.

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

  2000/2001 2003/2004 2004/2005 2005/20062006/2007 2007/2008 2008/2009
Number of new enrollments of higher education institutions – total 26403 25438 26988 28747 23873 25846 28765
including:
state 20498 21998 21493 23314 21158 23139 25622
of which by type of attendance:
day 17616 18111 17878 19577 17699 19599 22021
night 34 45 53 52 52 66 66
correspondence 2848 3842 3562 3685 3407 3474 3535
non-state 5905 3440 5495 5433 2715 2707 3143
of which by type of attendance:
day 4839 2792 4296 4708 2626 2597 3143
night 29 - 9 10 - - -
correspondence 1037 648 1190 715 89 110 -
Graduates - total 24488 28460 31232 32508 28141 31279 32580
including:
state 19631 24343 26197 27784 23999 26875 26593
of which day attendance 16621 20629 21770 22873 18159 20572 20846
non-state 4857 4117 5035 4724 4142 4404 5987
of which day attendance 3918 3284 3993 3140 2566 3066 3913
Number of graduates of higher institutions per 10000 population 31 35 38 39 34 37 38
including state 25 30 32 34 29 32 31

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

Countries 2003/2004 2004/2005 2005/20062006/2007 2007/2008 2008/2009
Number of foreign students - total 1984 2521 3073 3690 5014 5585
including:
Belarus 3 - 5 5 5 4
Chinese People's Republic 39 66 107 117 153 167
Afghanistan 12 6 1 4 2 4
Georgia 90 109 236 92 82 110
India 2 9 18 32 50 60
Jordan 7 6 3 2 9 9
Iraq 2 2 8 21 52 70
Iran 102 150 237 424 953 1185
Israel - 1 2 3 4 8
Cyprus - - 2 2 3 4
Republic of Korea - 2 3 2 3 6
Kazakhstan 9 15 23 18 12 22
Kyrgyzstan 34 5 4 12 3 35
Egypt - - 3 2 5 14
Nigeria - 1 15 12 16 18
Uzbekistan 7 2 5 11 30 9
Pakistan 8 10 25 30 24 31
Russia 305 506 169 150 157 220
Sudan 2 6 9 16 18 16
Syria 9 8 11 20 20 14
Turkey 1293 1541 2094 2612 3283 3459
Turkmenistan 24 33 53 59 84 87
Ukraine 15 8 6 10 8 7
Yemen 5 5 8 6 5 4
Other countries 16 30 26 28 33 22

Number of students educated in foreign countries by state line
(at the beginning of school year; person)

Countries 2003/2004 2004/2005 2005/20062006/2007 2007/2008 2008/2009
Total 804 1018 1182 1225 1256 1165
including:
USA - - - 1 10 26
Germany - - - - 18 58
Australia - - - - - 3
Austria - - - - 1 1
Belarus - - - - - 50
Belgium - - - - 2 1
Great Britain - - - 4 4 45
Czech Republic 6 7 8 8 7 7
Chinese People's Republic 17 16 16 17 15 26
France - - - - 3 47
Georgia - - - - - 40
Spain - - - - - 1
Sweden - - - - 3 8
Switzerland - - - - - 1
Italy - 3 4 5 7 6
Canada - - - - 1 2
The Republic of Korea - - - - - 21
Hundary - - - - 1 1
Egypt 47 48 64 43 30 27
Netherland - - - - - 11
Norway - - - - - 2
Roumania 5 5 4 2 4 3
Russia 107 164 245 323 344 439
Slovenia 2 3 3 3 2 2
Turkey 576 743 751 752 744 720
Ukraine 25 27 83 56 57 115
Japan - - - - - 1
New Zealand - - - - - 1
Other countries 19 2 4 11 3 -

Main indicators of post-graduate

  2000 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Total
Number of organizations with post-graduate courses 83 86 88 94 96 96 94
Number of post-graduate students, person 963 1178 1318 1479 1705 1681 1636
Admission of post-graduate students, person 367 398 470 503 550 452 455
Post graduates completed their education, person 321 260 320 317 340 431 503
including those defended a dissertation 35 27 31 28 22 31 44
Research institutions
Number of organizations with post-graduate courses 65 64 65 69 70 70 67
Number of post-graduate students, person 479 630 736 839 956 941 885
Admission of post-graduate students, person 165 238 281 295 329 259 249
Post graduates completed their education, person 183 135 164 175 211 261 287
including those defended a dissertation 15 10 14 12 13 14 22
Higher Educational Institutions
Number of organizations with post-graduate courses 18 22 23 25 26 26 27
Number of post-graduate students, person 484 548 582 640 749 740 751
Admission of post-graduate students, person 202 160 189 208 221 193 206
Post graduates completed their education, person 138 125 156 142 129 170 216
including those defended a dissertation 20 17 17 16 9 17 22

Main indicators of doctor's degree

  2000 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Total
Number of organizations with courses doctor's degree 21 19 20 21 19 24 27
Number of persons work-ing for doctor's degree 47 57 68 80 80 83 71
Admission of doctor's degree, person 9 14 14 18 17 19 31
Graduates of doctor's degree, person 22 15 6 8 11 20 20
including those defended a dissertation 2 3 2 4 6 7 2
Research institutions
Number of organizations with courses doctor's degree 13 13 12 13 11 13 13
Number of persons work-ing for doctor's degree 18 33 40 51 54 53 40
Admission of doctor's degree, person 4 10 11 17 13 12 19
Graduates of doctor's degree, person 11 9 5 7 6 15 9
including those defended a dissertation 1 2 2 4 4 6 1
Higher Educational Institutions
Number of organizations with courses doctor's degree 8 6 8 8 8 11 14
Number of persons work-ing for doctor's degree 29 24 28 29 26 30 31
Admission of doctor's degree, person 5 4 3 1 4 7 12
Graduates of doctor's degree, person 11 6 1 1 5 5 11
including those defended a dissertation 1 1 - - 2 1 1

Science expenditures from the state budget

  2000 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Science expenditures - total, mln. manat, 9.3 16.6 20.0 28.8 32.0 43.9 62.1
to GDP, in % 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2
to state budget expenditures, in % 1.2 1.3 1.3 1.3 0.8 0.7 0.6

Public libraries (to the end of the year)

  2000 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Number of public libraries - total 4374 4124 4090 4004 4021 4033 4035
including:
urban 660 661 643 624 622 632 633
rural 3714 3463 3447 3380 3399 3401 3402
Stock of library - total, mln. copies 38.7 36.5 35.3 36.6 36.4 36.8 36.9
including:
urban 19.9 18.3 17.5 17.9 17.9 17.9 17.9
rural 18.8 18.2 17.8 18.7 18.5 18.9 19.0
Per 1000 population, copy 4867 4483 4287 4401 4286 4320 4286
urban 4922 4358 4120 4172 4089 4056 4016
rural 4811 4615 4464 4645 4504 4603 4575

Theatres (to the end of the year)

  2000 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Number of professional theatres - total 1) 27 27 30 30 31 31 31
including:
opera and ballet 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
drama, comedy and musical 20 20 21 21 22 22 22
child and young people's theatre 6 6 8 8 8 8 8
Number of visitors theatres:
thsd. person 925 714 604 544 495 529 566
per 1000 population 117 88 74 66 59 62 66
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 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Number of museums - total 155 159 160 163 168 192 205
including:
history 14 14 14 15 17 37 49
memorial 32 33 34 34 35 36 37
local lore 63 65 65 66 67 69 69
art 37 38 38 38 38 39 39
other 9 9 9 10 11 11 11
Visitors museums:
thsd. person 1196 1131 1501 1477 1399 1409 1383
per 1000 population 151 139 183 179 167 167 162

Clubs (to the end of the year)

  2000 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Number of clubs - total 3354 3066 3030 2763 2759 2760 2762
including:
urban 432 407 657 393 394 389 390
rural 2922 2659 2373 2370 2365 2371 2372

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