Adult literacy rate

Adult female literacy rate

The literacy rate is 95 per cent.

The country's female literacy rate was 97 per cent.

The high literacy rate had resulted in high standards of maternal and childcare.

Roughly, and on an average, literacy rate in Pakistan has been growing at the rate of 3.2329 per annum.

In 2002, literacy rate was 94 among the population and 92 for women.

The overall literacy rate in Pakistan has been improving although at a slow pace.

In 1951, the literacy rate in Pakistan was 16.41 people who could read only.

Of all regions, sub Saharan Africa has the fastest rate of urbanization accompanied by a high rate of infant mortality, low life expectancy, low literacy and a high rate of HIV AIDS infection.

The adult literacy rate in China is 77 percent as compared with 48 percent in India.

The literacy rate rose from 74.8 per cent to 82.2 per cent between 1989 and 2002.

Although the literacy rate for both groups has improved, inequality still exists between whites and blacks.

The adult literacy rate was 68 per cent and primary school enrolment was 90 per cent.

The adult literacy rate is 98 per cent.5 The pupil teacher ratio averages 25 1.

She also expressed concern that despite the high literacy rate, the fertility rate, at 4.3, remained high and the contraceptive prevalence rate, 33 per cent in 1999, was low.

The Government and the United Nations country team have established a joint programme on women's integrated functional literacy, under which measurable progress in the literacy rate of women is expected by 2008.

The current estimated literacy rate for 2001 was 49.51 , though the definition of literacy is more stringent now people who are able to read with understanding and can write a short statement .

The adult literacy rate among 15 to 24 year olds in the least developed countries has increased.

The rate of illiteracy below and over 18 years, and the rate of enrolment in literacy classes, including by age, gender, region, rural urban area, and social and ethnic origin

Registered unemployment rate among women, employment rate among women (as a part of total female population), economically active women rate, women's participation in executive authority, and ratio between men and women aged over 15 in literacy.

3 The literacy rate refers to the proportion of persons aged 15 and above with educational attainment at primary or above.

The literacy rate in 2000 for the population over five years remained stagnant at the 1990 level of 55.3 per cent.

The very low standard of living, the geographical and climatological situation, the extremely high population growth rate and the very low literacy rate in the State party are also key factors.

166. Notwithstanding the Government s efforts in the field of education, the Committee is concerned at the low literacy rate among women and the low attendance rate by girls at secondary institutions.

However, it had not been possible to obtain a specific measure of the literacy rate from the recent census conducted in 2001.

Those programmes had helped increase enrolment figures and achieve a literacy rate of 92.5 per cent for boys and 87.9 per cent for girls.

The literacy rate is high 98 per cent of all males and 99 per cent of females 15 years of age and over can read and write.

However, Indonesia has achieved progress in reducing gender disparity in the overall literacy rate and as well as primary and secondary education participation.

UNESCO has developed the Literacy Initiative for Empowerment, which will be implemented in countries with an illiteracy rate of over 50 per cent or 10 million illiterates.

The adult literacy rate is no more that 45.5 per cent, and the life expectancy at birth is one of the lowest in the world (48 years).

DAFA Directorate of Girls' Literacy

330. Literacy.

Consider only one statistic those with the lowest literacy have an unemployment rate of 26 per cent as compared with 4 per cent for those with the highest.

202. Sri Lanka, in comparison with other developing countries in the South Asia region, has achieved considerable success in social status indicators, as is reflected in its low infant mortality rate, low maternal mortality rate, high life expectancy at birth and high literacy rate.

The cumulative effect of those initiatives was a significant increase in the literacy rate for women and girls, and in the number of women pursuing careers in male dominated occupations.

(1) Literacy Program

Literacy Tech Foundation

(d) Literacy rate3

The increase in percentage of the girls going to school, the increase in female literacy rate, the increase in the percentage of women in the labour force, the decrease in population growth rate and the fertility rate, while in some cases not very impressive numerically, point to a change in the right direction.

Furthermore, we participated in two rounds of the International Literacy Survey, from which direct measures of literacy can be derived.

Although the literacy rate is still lower in comparison with the urban population, the progress occurred in the last decade in terms of the average number of years of schooling is undeniable.

A skills based literacy programme for women in China has resulted in a decrease of the female illiteracy rate by 29 per cent, compared with the average for the province.

The impressive rate of literacy (see table at the end of this section) in Sri Lanka has been attributed to this vigorous education policy and the dedication of resources supportive of free education.

Table 10 Literacy statistics