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

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

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

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

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

Literacy in the 15 24 age group has increased, but progress has been uneven.

Literacy rates are 19 per cent for men and 12.4 per cent for women.

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

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

The departments of Quiché and Alta Verapaz have the country's lowest literacy rates with the situation being especially acute among rural women (49.2 and 50.7 per cent for the two departments, respectively).

The national illiteracy rate is 17 per cent.

The low level of literacy has an aggravating effect.

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

As important is a straightforward decline in literacy.

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

These schools were opened under a programme in the mid 1980s to improve literacy levels.

In the area of gender equality and the empowerment of woman, the high female literacy rates in Sri Lanka had resulted in comparatively high rates of employment of females at executive levels and high standards of maternal and childcare.

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.

The literacy rate was expected to increase to 63 per cent. Another objective of the plan was free primary education for all, free textbooks to girl students and scholarships for lower caste (dalit) and disadvantaged children.

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.

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

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

Thus, the analysis of the ratio of women with 15 years or more and 25 years or more (in order to measure the adult population) who know how to read and write, indicates an increase in the literacy rate of 15 and 20 , respectively during the period between 1992 and 2003.

Discrimination and exclusion result in poverty, low literacy levels and poor health, and make these groups particularly vulnerable in the labour market.

The literacy rate for women was 97 per cent there were more girls than boys at all levels of the educational system, and women were well represented in both the public and the private sectors.

She wondered what the State party was doing to remedy the situation, improve literacy rates among women, make sure all girls attended and stayed in school and eliminate stereotyping in choice of field of study.

A recent report by Statistics Canada has revealed that a mere 1 per cent increase in the average literacy rate in Canada will lead to an increase of 18.4 billion in the gross domestic product.

9 There are also large margins of difference between indigenous nationalities e.g., according to the 2001 census figures, Thakalis have the highest literacy rate (62.6 per cent), while the Chepangs have the lowest (14.6 per cent).

The matrix spelt out requirements under CEDAW General recommendations in one column, elaborated on these in the next and requested information in the last column. This matrix was sent in hardcopy as well on a computer diskette to all concerned ministries, departments and agencies at the federal and provincial level.

Illiteracy is very low in Aruba.

The 1998 census results show the illiterate population to be 48.84 million. (Data from literacy trends and statistics in Pakistan, UNESCO office Islamabad, 2002).

In addition to the fact that primary through tertiary education was free, school attendance was compulsory for ages 5 14 years (one year less than in the MDG). Despite a high literacy rate of 91.8 per cent and a net primary enrolment in basic education of 97 per cent, those achievements were not evenly spread countrywide.

But male education and literacy in Pakistan is not very high, either.

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

In 2004 UNESCO is carrying out a pilot literacy survey which will provide Vanuatu with its first literacy figure by 2005.

Moreover, although the most reliable source for calculating literacy rates are population censuses, the main limitation of this source is that census years are almost 10 years apart.

Although much remained to be done to improve the situation of rural women, the Government and its partners had been working to improve functional literacy, enterprise development, skills training and microfinance, with the aim of alleviating poverty.

History In ancient times Heilongjiang was far from any literate civilization, and information was sparse.

The church required from each person a degree of literacy sufficient to read the basic texts of the Lutheran faith.

As a result of the increased investment in girls' education, and greater parental awareness of the importance of educating girls, the literacy rate among women was 94 per cent, and women continued to outnumber men in terms of school enrolment.

Female literacy is low in Pakistan and, therefore, affects awareness among women about their rights.

An analysis of literacy in Aruba was limited to persons aged between 14 and 75.

Economic growth has been slow, approximately half of women are illiterate, and the region is not well integrated into the world economy.

This guarantees education for all and avoids the symbolic granting of diplomas to children that finish their first cycles of basic education without knowing how to read or write.

As important is a straightforward decline in literacy. Orwell talked of officials putting together blocks of words like prefabricated hen houses.