Editing Punjab, Pakistan (section)

==Education==
{{See also|List of schools in Punjab, Pakistan}}[[File:Government College University Tower in Lahore.jpg|thumb|[[Government College University, Lahore]]]]
The literacy rate has increased greatly over the last 40 years (see the table below). Punjab has the highest [[List of administrative units of Pakistan by Human Development Index|Human Development Index]] out of all of Pakistan's provinces at 0.550.<ref name="Subnational HDR">{{Cite web|url=https://globaldatalab.org/shdi/shdi/PAK/?levels=1%2B4&interpolation=1&extrapolation=0&nearest_real=0&colour_scales=global|language=en|access-date=8 August 2021|title=Sub-national HDI – Subnational HDI – Table – Global Data Lab }}</ref>

{| class="sortable wikitable"
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! Year || Literacy Rate
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| 1972 || 20.7%
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| 1981 || 27.4%
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| 1998 || 46.56%
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| 2009 || 59.6%	 	
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| 2021 || 66.3%<ref name="propakistani.pk">{{cite news | url=https://propakistani.pk/2022/06/09/kp-achieves-highest-literacy-rate-among-all-provinces/ | title=KP Achieves Highest Literacy Rate Growth Among All Provinces | newspaper=Propakistani | date=9 June 2022 }}</ref>

|}

Sources:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001459/145959e.pdf|title=Pakistan: where and who are the world's illiterates?; Background paper for the Education for all global monitoring report 2006: literacy for life; 2005<!-- Bot generated title -->|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091223003430/http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001459/145959e.pdf|archive-date=23 December 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://tribune.com.pk/story/119101/rural-women-uphold-pakistans-literacy-rate/|title=Rural women uphold Pakistan's literacy rate|date=15 February 2011|work=The Express Tribune|access-date=22 April 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141015023752/http://tribune.com.pk/story/119101/rural-women-uphold-pakistans-literacy-rate/|archive-date=15 October 2014}}</ref>

This is a chart of the education market of Punjab estimated by the government in 1998.
{| class="sortable wikitable"
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! Qualification || Urban || Rural || Total || Enrollment Ratio(%)
|-
| – || '''23,019,025''' || '''50,602,265''' || '''73,621,290''' || —
|-
| Below Primary || 3,356,173 || 11,598,039 || 14,954,212 || 100.00
|-
| Primary || 6,205,929 || 18,039,707 || 24,245,636 || 79.68
|-
| Middle || 5,140,148 || 10,818,764 || 15,958,912 || 46.75
|-
| Matriculation || 4,624,522 || 7,119,738 || 11,744,260 || 25.07
|-
| Intermediate || 1,862,239 || 1,821,681 || 3,683,920 || 9.12
|-
| BA, BSc... degrees || 110,491 || 96,144 || 206,635 || 4.12
|-
| MA, MSc... degrees || 1,226,914 || 764,094 || 1,991,008 || 3.84
|-
| Diploma, Certificate... || 418,946 || 222,649 || 641,595 || 1.13
|-
| Other qualifications || 73,663 || 121,449 || 195,112 || 0.26
|}

===List of universities===
{{Excerpt|List of universities of Punjab, Pakistan|List of universities}}

=== List of medical colleges ===
{{Excerpt|List of medical schools in Punjab, Pakistan|List of medical colleges|subsections=yes}}