Education in the OIC

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The public spending on education in the 57 Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) countries is one of the lowest in the world.

Contents 1 Statistics 1.1 Public expenditure on education (% of GDP) 1.2 Scientifically Productive Countries 1.3 Most Productive Universities in OIC 2 Notes 3 See also 4 External links

[edit] Statistics

[edit] Public expenditure on education (% of GDP)

sorted for year 2002-04 in descending order

Country	1991	2002-04
Kuwait	4.8	8.2
Maldives	7	8.1
Tunisia	6	8.1
Malaysia	5.1	8
Morocco	5	6.3
Djibouti	3.5	6.1
Guyana	2.2	5.5
Uganda	1.5	5.2
Iran	4.1	4.8
Oman	3.4	4.6
Kyrgyzstan	6	4.4
Senegal	3.9	4
Comoros		3.9
Cameroon	3.2	3.8
Turkey	2.4	3.7
Mauritania	4.6	3.4
Azerbaijan	7.7	3.3
Benin		3.3
Albania		2.8
Tajikistan		2.8
Lebanon		2.6
Togo		2.6
Kazakhstan	3.9	2.4
Niger	3.3	2.3
Bangladesh	1.5	2.2
Pakistan	2.6	2
Gambia	3.8	1.9
United Arab Emirates	1.9	1.6
Indonesia	1	0.9
Afghanistan
Algeria	5.1
Bahrain	3.9
Brunei Darussalam
Burkina Faso	2.6
Chad	1.6
Côte d'Ivoire
Egypt	3.9
Gabon
Guinea	2
Guinea-Bissau
Iraq
Jordan	8
Libya
Mali
Mozambique
Nigeria	0.9
Palestine
Qatar	3.5
Saudi Arabia	5.8
Sierra Leone
Somalia
Sudan	6
Suriname
Syria
Turkmenistan	3.9
Uzbekistan	9.4
Yemen
OIC Median	3.9	3.7

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[edit] Scientifically Productive Countries

Top 10 Most Scientifically Productive Countries in the Muslim World
Country		10-yr Publications	Top Discipline
1	Turkey	82,407	Surgery
2	Egypt	27,723	Applied Mathematics
3	Iran	19,114	Chemistry
4	Saudi Arabia	17,472	Gen - Internal Medicine
5	Malaysia	10,674	Crystallography
6	Morocco	10,113	Physical Chemistry
7	Nigeria	9,105	Food Science & Technology
8	Pakistan	7,832	Plant Sciences
9	Jordan	6,384	Chemical Engineering
10	Kuwait	5,930	Gen - Internal Medicine

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[edit] Most Productive Universities in OIC

Top 25 Most Productive Universities in the Muslim World
University		Country	Publications
1	University Hacettepe	Turkey	8,979
2	University Istanbul	Turkey	6,488
3	Ankara University	Turkey	5,982
4	Cairo University	Egypt	4,977
5	Kuwait University	Kuwait	4,495
6	King Saud University	Saudi Arabia	4,336
7	Middle Eastern Technical U.	Turkey	4,215
8	Gazi University	Turkey	3,652
9	Istabul Technical U.	Turkey	3,452
10	Ege University	Turkey	3,336
11	King Fahd University	Saudi Arabia	3,323
12	Ains Shams University	Egypt	3,129
13	University Malaya	Malaysia	2,862
14	National Research Center	Egypt	2,651
15	Alexandria University	Egypt	2,628
16	American University Beirut	Lebanon	2,568
17	Ataturk University	Turkey	2,535
18	United Arab Emirates U.	UAE	2,478
19	Mansoura University	Egypt	2,439
20	King Faisal Research Center	Saudi Arabia	2,434
21	University Sains Malaysia	Malaysia	2,402
22	Dokuz Eylul University	Turkey	2,389
23	Uzbek Academy of Science	Uzbekistan	2,169
24	Cukurova University	Turkey	2,026
25	University of Tehran	Iran	1,962

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[edit] Notes

• ¹ Human Development Report 2006
• ² Promoting Scientific Innovation in the Muslim World By Athar Osama, and COMSTECH As measured by publications frequency between 1995-2005
• ³ Promoting Scientific Innovation in the Muslim World By Athar Osama, and COMSTECH As Ten-year Publication Rate (1995-2005)

[edit] See also

• List of OIC countries by population
• Economy of the OIC
• Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

[edit] External links

Institutions

• The Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization –ISESCO
• OIC Standing Committee on Scientific and Technological Cooperation - COMSTECH

General links

• Promoting Scientific Innovation in the Muslim World