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UAE: Health & Education
UAE has developed a health care system of high international standard. Its development belongs to recent times. In 1990, there were one doctor per 1,040 inhabitants, which had increased to one per 575 inhabitants in 1997. From 1970 to 2002, infant mortality rate went from 8.7% to 0.9%. Development of hospitals are hard to exemplify: In 1979, there were 1,750 hospital beds in the country, a country of then 900,000 inhabitants, but it had not increased to more than 6,835 beds in 1997, when the country had between 2 and 3 million inhabitants.
UAE has in recent years seen a clear drop in fertility rate, as well as a marked increase in life expectancy. In less than a decade, fertility rate is down almost one child/woman, and life expectacy in the same period is up 1.2 years.
School is now compulsory for all children, and the quality of the education is fast ameliorating. UAE had for long only one university, the United Arab Emirates University, but with more options at technical colleges. In recent years, the number of higher institutions for learning has increased, adding the Zayed University, Dubai; Abu Dhabi University; University of Sharjah; Ajman University of Science and Technology; and University of Dubai. The number of colleges has also increased, so has branches of foreign universities.
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By: Tore Kjeilen
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