World Youth Report 2005
Politics and Society, Uzbekistan7 Comments
UN World Youth Report 2005 has been released. There is little information on individual countries but there are some terrible indicators for the whole of Central Asian region:
… in Central Asia and Eastern Europe, it is estimated that up to 25 per cent of those who inject drugs are below the age of 20 (UNAIDS Inter-Agency Task Team on Young People, 2004).
In some Central Asian countries, the proportion of the population engaged in injecting drug use is estimated to be up to ten times that in many Western European countries.
There is also a related article over at Vzglyad (in Russian) citing recent statistics by the Russian Academy of Sciences on youth and education in fSU countries:
In the year 2002, 10 secondary schools were closed in Azerbaijan, 55 in Belarus, 26 in Georgia, 230 in Russia, and 11 in Ukraine. On average, the number of schools in these countries has decreased by 0,1-1,2%. But in Armenia, for example, the number of daily schools has gone up by 21, in Kazakhstan - by 99, in Kyrgyzstan - by 43, in Moldova - by 11, and in Tajikistan - by 92.
Not a single word about Uzbekistan though. I guess compiling accurate statistics is something virtually impossible to accomplish in this country.
On the same note: I wonder if the Uzbek government ever reviews its commitments under the Convention on the Rights of the Child and related rights instruments especially when it comes to sending poor students to pick cotton in the fields. This year’s harvesting has been particularly hard for those who have neither money nor connections necessary to get around the sacred obligation “to contribute to the development of our Motherland”. I heard that a bribe to a ministry of education official was at around $ 100 while a special medical certificate of disability cost $ 50 on average. (For comparison, the official minimal wage in Uzbekistan is only $ 45). Entire university departments would suspend classes for up to two months because most of the students and teachers were gone for cotton-picking.
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Olesya over at uzbekistan.neweurasia.net has commenced posting, putting up two entries related to youth and education in Uzbekistan. The first discusses new regulations keeping students away from conferences that are co-sponsored by international orga…
Olesya,
I was glad to read information written by You when You say that - official minimal wage in Uzbekistan is only $ 45 - I just would like to say I wish!!!
It is only 9400 and went into force starting from 1/10/2005, which is around 8 USD, if You convert it into USD using current exchange rate. 8 USD for a whole work of a month. Amazing!!!!!!!!!
45 USD that You are mentioning in Your article is the average wage in all sectors of the economy of Uzbekistan, i.e. average wage in Uzbekistan, not minimum wage.
So situation is even worth!!!!!!!!!!
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Hi, guys!
Does anyone know where to find more statistical data on the number of drug addicted in Uzbekistan?
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Ok, guys you saying that an average wage is $45, and other guy said $8, well im from Uzbekistan,Tashkent and my grandma gets 45000 Sum, which does equal about $45 or even little bit more. SO it really actually depends who you were working as
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Well im sorry for the inconvenience my grandfather was a veteran who for last 9 years that i know of gets 49 thousand SOM, which is about 45 USD. My grandmother who was a an accountant gets 55 thousand som, which is about 50 USD now my uncle who hit 39 and got tuberculosis gets 39 thousand som, which is about 30 USD , so now i dont know how people are going to earn themselves a SSi type of government care. now if you were talking about how much they earn while working then im sorry again for misunderstanding, now heres a thing. You go to school, you finish school with a gold medal, then you go to college. Then you become a programmer and earn yourself nice 300 USD per month. Now if youre talking about those inocent people who dont have any money. then youre wrong because they didnt even tried to become a good student. They were lazy playing soccer outside or dancing with their girlfriends. Now theyre broke because they have no money neither the education to apply for any job. When i started out in school i was an administrator in a computer cafee, i would earn 5 dollars a day, taht made over 100 dollars a month. SO please watch what you’re saying you havent lived in uzbekistan as much as i did, or if you did then you probably lived somewhere in samarkand or bukhara not like me who lived in the capital of the country toshkent. Now if youre refering to other cities but tashkent then i jsut feel bad for those Uzbeks because i freaking hate them
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Hi, I am doing some research on the state of youth in Uzbekistan. Does anyone have recent data and statistics on youth in Uzbekistan, particularly in the Tashkent and Surkhandarya regions? I would like to identify WHO are the youth at risk (of unemployment, drug addiction, trafficking, etc) who are vulnerable to be marginalized from the current socio-economic spheres. Thank you, Gustavo
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