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Education:                

At the end of 2000, Tibet had four universities with 5,475 enrolled students and 813 teachers, about 110 secondary schools with 61,817 students and 5,048 teachers, and 842 primary schools with 313,807 pupils and 13,181 teachers. The weakness in the educational infrastructure and the lack of advanced and intermediate professionals and staff are major problems in Tibet. In 2000, the enrollment rate of school-age children was 85.80% and which was the lowest in China.

People:  

Based on the statistics at the end of 2000, about 1.2418 million people worked as employees, accounting for 47.40% of the total population in Tibet. The total wage bill of staff and workers was 2,320.07 million Yuan, and the per capita yearly wage was 14,976 Yuan. The annual per capita net income of rural residents was 1,331 Yuan. The annual per capita disposable income of urban residents was 6,448 Yuan. Per capita consumption of all residents on average was 1,823 Yuan, for rural residents 1,144 Yuan, and urban residents 4,737 Yuan.

Information from www.unescap.org