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 national illiteracy rate is 17 per cent.

The low level of literacy has an aggravating effect.

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).

As important is a straightforward decline in literacy.

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

Literacy by age group, sex, residence and province, 1990 and 2000

The adult literacy rate has been estimated at 64 per cent.

The literacy rate in the Territory is 98 per cent.

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.

The ability to read and write is regarded an important personal asset allowing women and men increased opportunities in life.

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

The Committee urges the Government to give priority to developing such programmes in a context where there are high literacy levels in the country.

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.

Mr. dos SANTOS HENRIQUES (Brazil) said that a national secretariat had been established to address the issue of education and promote literacy.

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

3.2. Literacy and education

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

Illiteracy is very low in Aruba.

Again, it's useful to make an analogy to reading and writing.

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.

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.

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.

De jure population, which defines the usual number of household members present and usual household members temporarily absent at the time of the census (including institutional populations).

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).

Regional variations in literacy are apparent, with Eastern and North Western Provinces showing the lowest even in 1990 (see table 15 and figure 5).

Percentage of literate women in urban and rural areas

Women apos s Programme Centre, literacy and numeracy, West Bank

She'll get over it. What is reading and writing for a girl?