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

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.

The literacy rate of women in Afghanistan is around 36 .

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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).

Literacy was estimated at 92.9 in 2007 this rate is lower in rural areas (80.3 ) than in urban areas (96.3 ).

English is the official language, and the literacy rate, 98 percent, is one of the highest in the Western Hemisphere.

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.

The overall literacy rate is 86.0 , and is 91.6 among males (the second highest in the province) and 80.4 among females.

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

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

Because of the Soviet Union's emphasis on total access of education for all citizens, which continues today, the literacy rate is an estimated 99.4 .

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.

Education The era of king Hussein of Jordan saw increased school enrollment rates, which resulted in a rapid rise in the literacy rate in Jordan.

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.

After all, with the rate of functional literacy at only 37.5 , they can easily manipulate the votes of uneducated people with alcohol, pop slogans, and intimidation.

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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.

According to last year s census, the country s 247 million households, two thirds of them rural, reported a rise in the literacy rate to 74 , from 65 in 2001.

In 1957, just before Castro came to power, the literacy rate was fourth in the region at almost 80 according to the United Nations, higher than in Spain.

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.

Table 10 Literacy statistics

Education and science According to 2011 census, literacy in Serbia stands at 98 of population while computer literacy is at 49 (complete computer literacy is at 34.2 ).

In July 2006, Prime minister Driss Jettou announced that illiteracy rate has declined by 39 percent, while two million people had attended literacy courses during the past four years.

Despite the social reforms the left likes to trumpet about Cuba, its literacy rate was higher before Castro came to power, and racism against the black population was less pervasive.

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.