| Date - Field | World - Literacy |
2009 January
Literacy | definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 82%
male: 87%
female: 77%
note: over two-thirds of the world's 785 million illiterate adults are found in only eight countries (India, China, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Indonesia, and Egypt); of all the illiterate adults in the world, two-thirds are women; extremely low literacy rates are concentrated in three regions, South and West Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Arab states, where around one-third of the men and half of all women are illiterate (2005 est.) |
2008 January
Literacy | definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 82%
male: 87%
female: 77%
note: over two-thirds of the world's 785 million illiterate adults are found in only eight countries (India, China, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Indonesia, and Egypt); of all the illiterate adults in the world, two-thirds are women; extremely low literacy rates are concentrated in three regions, South and West Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Arab states, where around one-third of the men and half of all women are illiterate (2005 est.) |
2007 January
Literacy | definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 82%
male: 87%
female: 77%
note: over two-thirds of the world's 785 million illiterate adults are found in only eight countries (India, China, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Indonesia, and Egypt); of all the illiterate adults in the world, two-thirds are women; extremely low literacy rates are concentrated in three regions, South and West Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Arab states, where around one-third of the men and half of all women are illiterate (2005 est.) |
2006 January
Literacy | definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 77%
male: 83%
female: 71% (1995 est.) |
2005 January
Literacy | definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 77%
male: 83%
female: 71% (1995 est.) |
2004 January
Literacy | definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 77%
male: 83%
female: 71% (1995 est.) |
2003 January
Literacy | definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 77%
male: 83%
female: 71% (1995 est.) |
2002 January
Literacy | definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 77%
male: 83%
female: 71% (1995 est.) |
2001 January
Literacy | void - (all current People informations) |
2000 January
Literacy | void - (all current People informations) |
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