Adult literacy rate

Adult female literacy rate

The adult literacy rate in China is 77 percent as compared with 48 percent in India.

The adult literacy rate was 68 per cent and primary school enrolment was 90 per cent.

The adult literacy rate is 98 per cent.5 The pupil teacher ratio averages 25 1.

The adult literacy rate among 15 to 24 year olds in the least developed countries has increased.

8.5 Adult and functional literacy programmes

Adult Literacy Schools exist in rural and urban areas for women as well as men to promote functional literacy.

In some countries, primary education enrolment and adult literacy had increased markedly.

The adult literacy rate is no more that 45.5 per cent, and the life expectancy at birth is one of the lowest in the world (48 years).

Campaign programmes for adult literacy have a built in component of this nature.

The literacy rate is 95 per cent.

In the education sector, 124 new universities have been opened nationwide, the adult literacy rate is nearly 94 per cent and primary school enrolment has reached 98 per cent.

The adult literacy programmes have been facilitated by the adoption of a common alphabet.

Nevertheless, it had been estimated that for the developing countries as a whole, the adult literacy rate rose from 63 per cent in 1985 to over 70 per cent in 1995.

At present there are nearly 10,000 adult literacy centers almost 90 of which cater to women.

401. During the 1960s the expansion of education was accompanied by a major adult literacy campaign.

Completion of primary education Literacy Popular culture Source Adult Education Department of the Ministry of Education.

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

Only the industrialized countries are set to reach the targeted reduction in under five mortality rate (U5MR), and no region is likely to meet the targets for child malnutrition, safe water, sanitation and adult literacy.

The report reflects the reality in Saint Kitts and Nevis, where there is an adult literacy rate of 97.8 per cent, a life expectancy rate of 70 years which needs upward revision and a combined primary, secondary and tertiary school enrolment ratio of 89 per cent.

The evaluation concluded that three types of education and their related target groups should be given particular priority primary education for children, basic education and literacy retention for adolescents and adult literacy.

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

In 2002, literacy rate was 94 among the population and 92 for women.

The high literacy rate had resulted in high standards of maternal and childcare.

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

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

The adult literacy classes, as a direct and indirect way of promoting education in the family, which consequently benefits the infantile education.

In the case of adult women, she wondered whether any provision was made for them to continue their education once they had achieved literacy.

Ms. Dacosta (Gambia) said that a number of Government institutions, as well as the NGO community, were running adult literacy programmes targeting mainly women.

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

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

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.

There is an awareness of the need to promote multilingualism and adult literacy as part of the official policy of recognizing South Africa's indigenous peoples.

However, the region is still experiencing literacy rates of only 67 per cent for its adult population and 75 per cent for its youth population.

(iii) Literacy courses in adult education centres (1984 3,400 participants in 250 institutes, 1989 more recent data are not available 17,000 participants in 400 institutes)

Education The organization supports adult education, in the form of functional adult literacy, to enable the uneducated and out of school youth play active roles in the education of their children and carry out their rights and responsibilities of citizenship.

The University has undertaken some innovative projects aimed at developing study materials for adults in local languages under the department of Adult Literacy and Continuing Education.

The Alliance centre, run almost entirely by disabled refugees, organized courses in computer skills, machine sewing techniques, adult literacy, and an 18 month English language course.

Of all regions, sub Saharan Africa has the fastest rate of urbanization accompanied by a high rate of infant mortality, low life expectancy, low literacy and a high rate of HIV AIDS infection.

The Government and the United Nations country team have established a joint programme on women's integrated functional literacy, under which measurable progress in the literacy rate of women is expected by 2008.

The current estimated literacy rate for 2001 was 49.51 , though the definition of literacy is more stringent now people who are able to read with understanding and can write a short statement .

Furthermore, in the 2003 2004 academic year, the Ministry of Education had provided some 2,105 adult literacy courses. Sixty one per cent of the participants had been women.

Over the previous four years, Myanmar's economy had posted an average growth rate of 12.5 per cent 176 dams, 202 major bridges and almost 60,000 kilometres of road had been built 124 new universities had been opened the adult literacy rate was 94 per cent primary school enrolment had reached 98 per cent and 188 new hospitals had been opened.

Registered unemployment rate among women, employment rate among women (as a part of total female population), economically active women rate, women's participation in executive authority, and ratio between men and women aged over 15 in literacy.