Did You Know: 51% of newborns in Abu Dhabi were boys in 2015

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There were 38,818 births in Abu Dhabi during 2015, of which 19,944 were males and 18,874 were females.
"The number of deaths during the same year was 3,164, including 2,193 males and 971 females," says Abu Dhabi's Statistical Year Book for 2016.
The 2015 crude birth rates for UAE nationals, expatriates and the population as a whole were 31.6, 10.0 and 13.9 births per 1,000 population, respectively, it said.
The 2015 crude death rates for Emiratis, expatriates and the population as a whole were 2.1, 0.9 and 1.1 deaths per 1,000 population respectively.
Education:
The year book revealed statistics for the academic year 2014-15. There was a total of 444 schools in the Emirate, of which 256 were government schools and 188 were private schools, with 351,501 pupils, 23,571 teachers and 10,171 administrators.
The number of pupils per teacher was 14.9 and the number of pupils per classroom was 22.0. Net enrolment in government schools was 36.3 per cent while 63.7 per cent were enrolled in private schools.
The overall female to male ratio was 95.9.
A total of 152,720 citizens were enrolled in general education up to the secondary stage during the school year 2014/15 making up 43.4 percent of total enrollment.
Net school enrolment ratio for 2014/15 was 96.6 in the first education cycle, 83.5 in the second cycle and 58.9 in secondary stage.
A total of 19,049 students progressed to secondary school in 2014/15, up 4.6 per cent compared with the previous year.
In 2014/15, 10,549 students were enrolled in literacy and adult education centres and home schooling, of whom 75.8 per cent were citizens. 245 teachers taught at these centres, of whom 163 were Emiratis.
In the academic year 2013-14, a total of 10,921 students graduated from higher education, of whom 5,107 students graduated from the government universities and institutions and 5,814 from the private universities and institutions. 69.7 per cent of the graduates were UAE nationals.
Total enrollment in higher education was 50,809 students, of whom 37,292 were citizens.
HEALTH:
Health services have experienced remarkable expansion and transformation over the past few years. This is most evident in the significant rise in the number of hospitals and other health facilities over this period, which proves that the Emirate still strives for developed world standards in health care.
Data for 2014 point to an increase in the number of physicians to 2,508 and the number of government hospital beds to 2,670, bringing the total number of beds in all government and private hospitals to 4,187.
The increased levels of health funding in the Emirate has resulted in a boom in health insurance business and products.
The number of 'Enhanced' health insurance products purchased increased steadily from 1,044,734 in 2010 to 1,539,298 in 2014.
haseeb@khaleejtimes.com