The adult literacy rate is now almost 95 , and secondary school enrollment rates are up to 80 .

8.5 Adult and functional literacy programmes

Today the overall literacy rate in Albania is 98.7 the male literacy rate is 99.2 and female literacy rate is 98.3 .

In 1990 91 an adult literacy rate of just over 60 percent was still being reported in government as well as in some international reports.

Adult Literacy Schools exist in rural and urban areas for women as well as men to promote functional literacy.

The adult literacy programmes have been facilitated by the adoption of a common alphabet.

For 2001 the United Nations Development Programme s Human Development Report estimates that the adult literacy rate climbed to about 80.8 percent, or 91.3 percent for males and 69.3 percent for females.

At present there are nearly 10,000 adult literacy centers almost 90 of which cater to women.

Parsis have a high literacy rate as of 2001, the literacy rate is 97.9 , the highest of any Indian community (the national average is 64.8 ).

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

Social services, including health care and disease control, education, and adult literacy programs should also be promoted.

The literacy rate of women in Afghanistan is around 36 .

Moreover, income growth has contributed to improved education. Adult literacy rates in South Asia match the global norm.

Furthermore, in the 2003 2004 academic year, the Ministry of Education had provided some 2,105 adult literacy courses.

Strategies on ascertaining the level of literacy by using a national survey, policy development and a community adult literacy programme do not specifically mention women and how they might be targeted.

Indicator 10 Literacy rate of men and women of age 15 24

Literacy rate is difficult to estimate with differing figures using different definitions.

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

The adult literacy classes, as a direct and indirect way of promoting education in the family, which consequently benefits the infantile education.

The literacy rate for Vanuatu ranges from 34 per cent to 65 per cent.

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.

Health conditions are reasonably good, and all Latin American countries have made headway against illiteracy, with most reaching 90 adult literacy or higher.

In addition, Jews had a religious culture that promoted universal adult literacy at least for men and a culture that respected book learning.

The overall literacy rate for women is undoubtedly low much lower than that for men.

The overall literacy rate is 86.4 , and is 91.4 among males and 81.4 among females.

In the case of adult women, she wondered whether any provision was made for them to continue their education once they had achieved literacy.

Ms. Dacosta (Gambia) said that a number of Government institutions, as well as the NGO community, were running adult literacy programmes targeting mainly women.

Government funding struggled to keep up with rising costs during this period, but by 2002, according to the World Bank, only 2 percent of those between the ages of 15 and 24 could not read, and by 2009, the adult literacy rate was 90.4 percent.

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.

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.

A range of approaches to adult education brings health literacy skills to people in traditional classroom settings, as well as where they work and live.

There is an awareness of the need to promote multilingualism and adult literacy as part of the official policy of recognizing South Africa's indigenous peoples.

However, the region is still experiencing literacy rates of only 67 per cent for its adult population and 75 per cent for its youth population.

The University has undertaken some innovative projects aimed at developing study materials for adults in local languages under the department of Adult Literacy and Continuing Education.

This may also relate to the relatively high mortality rate among adult females and the higher proportion of adult males in some lemur populations both unusual traits among primates.

When there is development in society, social security ensured, the rate of literacy increased, child marriages will fall.

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 .

Unless it improves its infrastructure and literacy rate (particularly for women), India is unlikely to catch up with China.

With the assistance of the department of technical services as well as NGOs and other actors working in rural areas, the Adult Literacy and Education Department has been organizing annual literacy campaigns since 1970 in five national languages, namely Hausa, Zarma, Kanuri, Fulfulde and Tamajaq.

Under normal circumstances and despite a high rate of literacy, Palestine's Internet penetration rate stands between 13 and 15 per cent (including both the West Bank and Gaza).