Education and Healthcare

Question 1

National literacy rate

Answer 1

20% in 1949 - 64% in 1964

Question 2

What % of the budget went on education and health?

Answer 2

6.4%

Question 3

How many children aged 7– 16 in full time education?

Answer 3

Less than half by 1956

Question 4

How many people’s education was stopped during the cultural revolution?

Answer 4

130 million

Question 5

University enrolments

Answer 5

117,00 - 441,000

Question 6

What % of students were in engineering/medicine/agriculture?

Answer 6

63% by 1953

Question 7

What % of the population remained illiterate?

Answer 7

78%

Question 8

What % of primary school children were in education?

Answer 8

52%

Question 9

Spending of healthcare never rose above what %?

Answer 9

2.6%

Question 10

What diseases were effectively eradicated?

Answer 10

• Smallpox
• Cholera
• Typhus
• Typhoid fever
• Plague
• Leprosy

Question 11

How many western type hospitals were built?

Answer 11

800

Question 12

Number of modern doctors

Answer 12

40,000 in 1949 - 150,000 in 1965

Question 13

Life expectancy

Answer 13

Rose to 57 in 1957

Question 14

How many doctors were medical schools producing?

Answer 14

25,000 by 1960

Question 15

What are barefoot doctors?

Answer 15

• Only trained 6 months
• Given Barefoot Doctors Manual: just symptoms (no theory)
• Village clinics had little equipment/low medicine supply