| Rank | Country | female | Literacy |
134 | Bolivia | 80.70 | definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 86.7%
male: 93.1%
female: 80.7% (2001 census) |
135 | Equatorial Guinea | 80.50 | definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 87%
male: 93.4%
female: 80.5% (2000 est.) |
136 | Mauritius | 80.50 | definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 84.4%
male: 88.4%
female: 80.5% (2000 census) |
137 | Honduras | 80.20 | definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 80%
male: 79.8%
female: 80.2% (2001 census) |
138 | Kenya | 79.70 | definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 85.1%
male: 90.6%
female: 79.7% (2003 est.) |
139 | El Salvador | 79.60 | definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 81.1%
male: 82.8%
female: 79.6% (2007 census) |
140 | Turkey | 79.60 | definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 87.4%
male: 95.3%
female: 79.6% (2004 est.) |
| World | 79.20 | definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 83.7%
male: 88.3%
female: 79.2%
note: over two-thirds of the world's 793 million illiterate adults are found in only eight countries (Bangladesh, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Pakistan); of all the illiterate adults in the world, two-thirds are women; extremely low literacy rates are concentrated in three regions, the Arab states, South and West Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa, where around one-third of the men and half of all women are illiterate (2005-09 est.) |
141 | Congo, Republic of the | 78.40 | definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 83.8%
male: 89.6%
female: 78.4% (2003 est.) |
142 | Sao Tome and Principe | 77.90 | definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 84.9%
male: 92.2%
female: 77.9% (2001 census) |
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