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Is Kyrgyzstan ready for global economic competition?

The productivity and income level of the next generation is 58 percent. The World Bank reported.

The results of the new World Bank study proved that, if we achieve better results in the field of children’s health and education, it is possible to ensure an impressive income growth of the people and countries.

Kyrgyzstan takes the 76th place in the ranking of 157 countries in the Human Capital Index. It measures the state of health, as well as the quality of education that a child born today can expect when he or she will turn 18. In other words, the expected level of performance of a newborn is compared with the «ideal level» that he or she could achieve with high-quality school education and 100 percent health.

The Human Capital Index includes five indicators: the probability of surviving to the age of five, the proportion of children without developmental delays, the expected duration of education, the quality of education (based on test results), and «adult survival rate» — the proportion of 15-year-olds who will live up to 60 years.

According to data on Kyrgyzstan, 98 out of 100 children live up to the age of five, and 87 out of 100 children do not have developmental delays. From the age of four, the child will receive education in preschool and school institutions for 12.6 years. If we take into account the actually acquired volume of knowledge, then these 12.6 years of study correspond to 8.4 years.

Schoolchildren of the Kyrgyz Republic score 420 points on the academic scale, where the highest level is 625 points and the lowest is 300 points. As for «survival of adults,» 82 percent of today’s 15-year-olds in Kyrgyzstan will live up to 60 years. These statistics are an indirect indicator of a number of fatal and non-lethal clinical outcomes that a child born today may experience, becoming an adult under current conditions.

According to the study, the Human Capital Index of Kyrgyzstan is 0.58 out of 1. This means that the generation of children born in 2017 will lose 42 percent of productivity and income. «Improvement of financing of health care and education, increase of labor productivity and other investments in human capital will help improve the indicators in the Human Capital Index of Kyrgyzstan,» the World Bank recommends.

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