Saudi Arabia to give serious attention to the education of its people. Hence, do not hesitate, the country's government poured a lot of money to make people more intelligent.

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Saudi Arabia to give serious attention to the education of its people. Hence, do not hesitate, the country's government poured a lot of money to make people more intelligent.




Newspaper Al Eqtisadiya on Tuesday (01/08/2013), writes, since ten years ago, Saudi Arabia had to spend up to 322 billion dollars for education. Money as much as it was in the post-post university education, vocational training, and development campuses in various cities.

The mass media also showed that 48 percent of the funds were used for education funding for schools, particularly private schools. In 2011, the number of public schools in Saudi Arabia reached 20,600.

Then, until the end of 2012, the government also built 750 new schools. This data comes from the Ministry of Education of Saudi Arabia. "Education budget for 2013 the amount of 54 billion U.S. dollars," said the ministry statement.

Meanwhile, a record of the daily Okaz showed that education funding was abundant success eradicate illiteracy. In 2007, the illiteracy rate in Saudi Arabia 60 per cent of the total population of around 27 million. Then, five years later, those who are not literate only four percent.