Central Europe since 1945
| Table 6.6 |
Indices of social development in terms of education access
and consumption -- number of students in higher education institutions;
ownership of television sets, motor cars, telephones, washing machines,
all per 1,000 population |
|
Czchslvkia. |
GDR |
Hungary |
Poland |
UK |
| Students: |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1949/50 |
4.4 |
|
2.7 |
4.6 |
2.0 |
| 1960 |
6.9 |
13.2 |
4.5 |
5.6 |
2.5 |
| 1970 |
9.1 |
17.8 |
7.8 |
10.1 |
3.8 |
| 1980 |
12.9 |
24.0 |
9.4 |
16.6 |
|
| 1987 |
11.0 |
26.4 |
9.4 |
12.2 |
|
| Television: |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1960 |
58 |
60 |
10 |
14 |
211 |
| 1970 |
215 |
264 |
171 |
129 |
294 |
| 1977 |
259 |
325 |
240 |
206 |
317 |
| 1987 |
285 |
374 |
276 |
261 |
347 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Cars: |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1960 |
18 |
17 |
3 |
4 |
108 |
| 1970 |
58 |
68 |
23 |
15 |
215 |
| 1977 |
121 |
133 |
70 |
44 |
261 |
| 1988 |
171 (1984) |
225 |
156 |
120 |
349 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Telephones: |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1960 |
74 |
75 |
|
30 |
157 |
| 1970 |
138 |
123 |
80 |
57 |
268 |
| 1980 |
206 |
189 |
118 |
95 |
477 |
| 1988 |
246 |
233 |
152 |
122 |
524 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Washing machines: |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1970 |
276 |
205 |
179 |
185 |
|
| 1975 |
363 |
277 |
228 |
217 |
|
| 1980 |
411 |
328 |
300 |
253 |
|
Source United Nations Yearbooks, Morris, Eastern Europe Since
1945, p. 155; Rocznik Statystyczny 1990, pp. 585, 588, 596,
599