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(ANSAmed) - CAIRO, NOVEMBER 4 - The book-citizen ratio in the Arab world is one to 12,000, a surprising figure compared to Britain (one book for every 500 people) or Germany (on book for every 900), with a percentage of reading lower by 4%. So reveals the "first Arab report on cultural development" to be published soon in Cairo by the Foundation on Arab Thought, led by Saudi prince Khaled Al Faisal. The report, which is published in part in the pan-Arab daily Asharq Al Awsat, is 700 pages long, divided into 5 topics: secondary teaching in Arab countries, the Arab media (press, tv, internet), writing and publishing in 18 Arab countries, Arab creativity in 2007, the balance of cultural life in the Arab world in the same year. The access rate to university education in Arab countries, according to the report, is not above 21.8%, compared to 91% in South Korea, 72% in Australia, 58% in Israel. The highest is the United Arab Emirates, with 76%, Bahrain, 68%, Lebanon 62%, Saudi Arabia 49% and Egypt, 45%. On average in universities there is one professor to 24 students, compared with 8 students in Japan and 13 in the USA. Egypt is the top Arab country in the study of social sciences and the humanities, with less than 80% of university students. With regard to blogs, Arabs have 490,000, 0.7% of the total worldwide, Egypt 162,000 (31% of Arab blogs). There are 482 satellite TV channels. Of these 19% are religious, 18 music, and 4.8 are dedicated to cultural programmes. (ANSAmed).