The decline in the number of illiterates between the two censuses is attributable to the decline in rural illiteracy.

In 1960, the proportion of illiterates was 21.7 per cent by 1990, it had gone down to 10.6 per cent.

As a result, the percentage of ethnic illiterates has fallen and by 2002 stood at 22.6 .

There is a problem in terms of bringing the illiteracy rate considerably down, especially for girls

In addition, in the 1980s several literacy campaigns were carried out and significantly reduced the illiteracy rates.

There had been a marked decrease in illiteracy, with very large numbers of students attending literacy courses, which were offered on a non discriminatory basis.

There has been a slight reduction in the rate of female illiteracy from 9 per cent in 1990 to 8.4 per cent in 1993.

a) the degree of illiteracy among women has been reduced by 50 percent in the 20 years preceeding the war in BIH,

The rate of illiteracy in Mexico was declining but remained high among older women and rural and indigenous women.

A slight decline from 9 to 8.6 per cent in the rates of male and female illiteracy in 1993, although the decline for women was slightly less than for men (8.4 ).

(d) A fall in the rate of adult illiteracy from 54.9 per cent in 1975 to 46.2 per cent in 1984 and to 37.1 per cent in 1994.

And illiteracy has gone down, from a half to about a quarter of the people on Earth.

335. From 1981 to 1993, the illiteracy rate among women dropped by 7.8 per cent.

In the area of education, Thailand had succeeded in reducing illiteracy.

Illiteracy in Croatia had declined from 3 per cent in 1991 to 1.8 per cent in 2001, mostly among people over 65.

77. The illiteracy rate in Peru decreased sharply from 57.6 per cent in 1940 to 18.1 per cent in 1981.

This fall in illiteracy rates and (illegible) among females is attributable to the expansion of compulsory education and to the literacy programme introduced as an experiment by the Ministry of Education.

The percentage of illiteracy among women aged 15 and over fell successively from (illegible) in 1972 to 48.2 per cent in 1989 and 28.1 per cent in 1990.

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During the period 1983 1991, the illiteracy rate among the population aged 15 and over fell from 16.0 to 10.7 per cent.

Government efforts to eliminate female illiteracy and to reduce the school dropout rate have had some notable successes.

Female illiteracy has been reduced to acceptable levels, and school dropout rates have declined.

The illiteracy rate among women had fallen from 76.1 per cent in 1971 to 17 per cent in 2001 and there also had been reductions in the rate of infant mortality and a rise in the percentage of women in employment.

Equal are not the blind and those who can see,

And the blind and the sighted are not equal!

Not equal are the blind and the seeing man,

Not alike are the blind and the seeing.

Not alike are the blind (disbelievers in Islamic Monotheism) and the seeing (believers in Islamic Monotheism).

Not equal are the blind and the seeing.

The blind and the seeing are not alike,

The blind man is not equal with the seer

The blind one and the seer are not equal,

The blind and the seeing are not equal,

Not equal are the blind and the seeing,

The blind and the seeing are not alike

And the blind and the seeing are not alike

The blind and the sighted are not equal,

The blind and the seeing are not alike

In Syria, the female illiteracy rate had declined and women represented 50 per cent of all students, including at the university level.

His Government had implemented an annual strategy aimed at reducing illiteracy to below 20 per cent by 2010, with a view to eradicating it almost entirely by 2015.

Progress must be measured in terms of reduced levels of illiteracy, infant mortality and poverty.

5.2 Participation in and the formulation of Government policy and the implementation thereof

The same development has taken place with respect to the population apos s literacy levels, an area in which women are the main beneficiaries since the difference in the literacy rates of men and women narrowed from 2.9 per cent in 1978 to 0.5 per cent in 1993.

5.2.1 Women and politics

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