Table 3: Central Asian Republics: Selected indicators on education, 1993 and 1995.

  Adult literacy rate (%)

1995

 Expenditure on education as % of GNP
1993 1995
Armenia 99.0 4.8 ..
Azerbaijan 97.0 7.2 3.0
Kazakhstan 99.0 6.4 4.5
Kyrgyzstan 97.0 4.0 6.8
Tajikistan 99.0 13.2 8.6
Turkmenistan 98.0 3.8 ..
Uzbekistan 99.0 11.1 9.5

Source: 1996 and 1998 UNDP Human Development Reports

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