|
Education level
|
|
High School graduates(Million)
|
University graduates(Thousand)
|
Masters graduates(Thousand)
|
|
1978 |
6.83 |
165 |
0.01 |
|
1980 |
6.16 |
147 |
0.48 |
|
1985 |
1.97 |
316 |
17.00 |
|
1990 |
2.33 |
614 |
35.44 |
|
1995 |
2.02 |
805 |
31.88 |
|
2000 |
3.02 |
950 |
58.77 |
|
2001 |
3.41 |
1,036 |
67.81 |
|
2002 |
3.84 |
1,337 |
80.84 |
|
2003 |
4.58 |
1,877 |
111.09 |
|
2004 |
5.47 |
2,391 |
150.78 |
|
2005 |
6.61 |
3,068 |
162.00 |
Source: National Bureau of Statistics
- Over 12 million students were sent to the countryside between 1968 and 1976.
Source: John Gittings, The Changing Face of China,2005
Literacy rate*
%
|
1990 |
84.12 |
|
1996 |
82.18 |
|
2000 |
93.28 |
|
2001 |
90.12 |
|
2002 |
88.37 |
|
2003 |
89.05 |
|
2004 |
89.68 |
*Aged 15 and above who can read and write Source: National Bureau of Statistics
Literacy
Million
| |
Male illiterates |
Female illiterates |
Literates |
| 1980 |
71.0 |
63.8 |
425.4 |
| 1985 |
63.8 |
141.6 |
540.5 |
| 1990 |
55.8 |
129.6 |
650.0 |
| 1995 |
46.6 |
119.7 |
731.7 |
| 2000 |
37.8 |
106.7 |
815.8 |
| 2005 |
29.35 |
90.7 |
916.2 |
| 2010 |
22.7 |
76.0 |
994.8 |
Student enrollment
|
|
|
Students per 10,000 population
|
|
|
Students to total population(%)
|
University/college
|
Secondary school
|
Primary school
|
| 1980 |
20.69 |
12 |
575 |
1,482 |
| 1985 |
17.60 |
16 |
481 |
1,263 |
| 1990 |
15.35 |
18 |
447 |
1,071 |
| 1995 |
16.25 |
24 |
511 |
1,089 |
| 2000 |
17.43 |
44 |
660 |
1,027 |
| 2001 |
17.30 |
56 |
686 |
983 |
| 2002 |
17.50 |
70 |
733 |
946 |
| 2003 |
17.70 |
86 |
763 |
910 |
| 2004 |
17.50 |
103 |
776 |
870 |
- In 2002 more than 5 million students who had finished secondary school took college entrance exams.
Source: John Gittings, The Changing Face of China, 2005
- Three-quarters of school drop-outs were female in 1990
Source: John Gittings, The Changing Face of China, 2005
Distribution of students
%
|
|
University/college students
|
Secondary school
|
Primary school
|
| 1980 |
0.6 |
27.8 |
71.6 |
| 1985 |
0.9 |
27.3 |
71.8 |
| 1990 |
1.2 |
29.1 |
69.7 |
| 1995 |
1.5 |
31.5 |
67.1 |
| 2000 |
2.5 |
38.6 |
58.9 |
| 2001 |
3.3 |
39.8 |
57.0 |
| 2002 |
4.0 |
42.0 |
54.0 |
| 2003 |
4.9 |
42.9 |
52.2 |
| 2004 |
5.9 |
44.4 |
49.7 |
- 39% of Tibetan school-age children attended lower secondary school in 2002.
Source: John Gittings, The Changing Face of China, 2005
- Foreign aid workers estimated primary school attendance in Tibet in 2002 was 50% in poor areas even though official figures claim 87%.
Source: John Gittings, The Changing Face of China, 2005
- Illiteracy among the Han Chinese population was 17.8% in 1990.
Source: John Gittings, The Changing Face of China, 2005
- Illiteracy among China’s minorities was 30.8% in 1990.
Source: John Gittings, The Changing Face of China, 2005
- In 2004 fees provided 18% of the revenues of schools and colleges.
- Revenues of schools and colleges rose 4.4% between 1991 and 2004.
- 40 million people worldwide are learning Chinese.
- 100 million people worldwide will be learning Chinese by 2010.
- The number of foreigners studying Mandarin in China has grown from 36,000 in 2996 to 110,000 in 2006.
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