Chapter 283
Colombia definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 92.8% male: 92.9% female: 92.7% (2004 est.)
Comoros definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 56.5% male: 63.6% female: 49.3% (2003 est.)
Congo, Democratic Republic of the definition: age 15 and over can read and write French, Lingala, Kingwana, or Tshiluba total population: 67.2% male: 80.9% female: 54.1% (2001 est.)
Congo, Republic of the definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 83.8% male: 89.6% female: 78.4% (2003 est.)
Cook Islands definition: NA total population: 95% male: NA% female: NA%
Costa Rica definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 94.9% male: 94.7% female: 95.1% (2000 census)
Cote d'Ivoire definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 48.7% male: 60.8% female: 38.6% (2000 est.)
Croatia definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 98.1% male: 99.3% female: 97.1% (2001 census)
Cuba definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99.8% male: 99.8% female: 99.8% (2002 census)
Cyprus definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 97.6% male: 98.9% female: 96.3% (2001 census)
Czech Republic definition: NA total population: 99% male: 99% female: 99% (2003 est.)
Denmark definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99% male: 99% female: 99% (2003 est.)
Djibouti definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 67.9% male: 78% female: 58.4% (2003 est.)
Dominica definition: age 15 and over has ever attended school total population: 94% male: 94% female: 94% (2003 est.)
Dominican Republic definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 87% male: 86.8% female: 87.2% (2002 census)
Ecuador definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 91% male: 92.3% female: 89.7% (2001 census)
Egypt definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 71.4% male: 83% female: 59.4% (2005 est.)
El Salvador definition: age 10 and over can read and write total population: 80.2% male: 82.8% female: 77.7% (2003 est.)
Equatorial Guinea definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 87% male: 93.4% female: 80.5% (2000 est.)
Eritrea definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 58.6% male: 69.9% female: 47.6% (2003 est.)
Estonia definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99.8% male: 99.8% female: 99.8% (2000 census)
Ethiopia definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 42.7% male: 50.3% female: 35.1% (2003 est.)
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) NA
Faroe Islands NA; note - probably 99%, the same as Denmark proper
Fiji definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 93.7% male: 95.5% female: 91.9% (2003 est.)
Finland definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 100% male: 100% female: 100% (2000 est.)
France definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99% male: 99% female: 99% (2003 est.)
French Polynesia definition: age 14 and over can read and write total population: 98% male: 98% female: 98% (1977 est.)
Gabon definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 63.2% male: 73.7% female: 53.3% (1995 est.)
Gambia, The definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 40.1% male: 47.8% female: 32.8% (2003 est.)
Gaza Strip definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 92.4% male: 96.7% female: 88% (2004 est.)
Georgia definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 100% male: 100% female: 100% (2004 est.)
Germany definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99% male: 99% female: 99% (2003 est.)
Ghana definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 57.9% male: 66.4% female: 49.8% (2000 census)
Gibraltar definition: NA total population: above 80% male: NA female: NA
Greece definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 96% male: 97.8% female: 94.2% (2001 census)
Greenland definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 100% male: 100% female: 100% (2001 est.)
Grenada definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 96% male: NA female: NA (2003 est.)
Guam definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99% male: 99% female: 99% (1990 est.)
Guatemala definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 69.1% male: 75.4% female: 63.3% (2002 census)
Guernsey NA
Guinea definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 29.5% male: 42.6% female: 18.1% (2003 est.)
Guinea-Bissau definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 42.4% male: 58.1% female: 27.4% (2003 est.)
Guyana definition: age 15 and over has ever attended school total population: 98.8% male: 99.1% female: 98.5% (2003 est.)
Haiti definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 52.9% male: 54.8% female: 51.2% (2003 est.)
Holy See (Vatican City) definition: NA total population: 100% male: 100% female: 100%
Honduras definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 80% male: 79.8% female: 80.2% (2001 census)
Hong Kong definition: age 15 and over has ever attended school total population: 93.5% male: 96.9% female: 89.6% (2002)
Hungary definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99.4% male: 99.5% female: 99.3% (2003 est.)
Iceland definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99% male: 99% female: 99% (2003 est.)
India definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 61% male: 73.4% female: 47.8% (2001 census)
Indonesia definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 90.4% male: 94% female: 86.8% (2004 est.)
Iran definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 77% male: 83.5% female: 70.4% (2002 est.)
Iraq definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 74.1% male: 84.1% female: 64.2% (2000 est.)
Ireland definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99% male: 99% female: 99% (2003 est.)
Isle of Man NA
Israel definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 97.1% male: 98.5% female: 95.9% (2004 est.)
Italy definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 98.4% male: 98.8% female: 98% (2001 census)
Jamaica definition: age 15 and over has ever attended school total population: 87.9% male: 84.1% female: 91.6% (2003 est.)
Japan definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99% male: 99% female: 99% (2002)
Jersey NA
Jordan definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 89.9% male: 95.1% female: 84.7% (2003 est.)
Kazakhstan definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99.5% male: 99.8% female: 99.3% (1999 est.)
Kenya definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 85.1% male: 90.6% female: 79.7% (2003 est.)
Kiribati NA
Korea, North definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99% male: 99% female: 99%
Korea, South definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 97.9% male: 99.2% female: 96.6% (2002)
Kuwait definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 93.3% male: 94.4% female: 91% (2005 census)
Kyrgyzstan definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 98.7% male: 99.3% female: 98.1% (1999 census)
Laos definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 68.7% male: 77% female: 60.9% (2001 est.)
Latvia definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99.7% male: 99.8% female: 99.7% (2000 census)
Lebanon definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 87.4% male: 93.1% female: 82.2% (2003 est.)
Lesotho definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 84.8% male: 74.5% female: 94.5% (2003 est.)
Liberia definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 57.5% male: 73.3% female: 41.6% (2003 est.)
Libya definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 82.6% male: 92.4% female: 72% (2003 est.)
Liechtenstein definition: age 10 and over can read and write total population: 100% male: 100% female: 100%
Lithuania definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99.6% male: 99.6% female: 99.6% (2001 census)
Luxembourg definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 100% male: 100% female: 100% (2000 est.)
Macau definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 91.3% male: 95.3% female: 87.8% (2001 census)
Macedonia definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 96.1% male: 98.2% female: 94.1% (2002 census)
Madagascar definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 68.9% male: 75.5% female: 62.5% (2003 est.)
Malawi definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 62.7% male: 76.1% female: 49.8% (2003 est.)
Malaysia definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 88.7% male: 92% female: 85.4% (2000 census)
Maldives definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 96.3% male: 96.2% female: 96.4% (2000 census)
Mali definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 46.4% male: 53.5% female: 39.6% (2003 est.)
Malta definition: age 10 and over can read and write total population: 92.8% male: 92% female: 93.6% (2003 est.)
Marshall Islands definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 93.7% male: 93.6% female: 93.7% (1999)
Mauritania definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 51.2% male: 59.5% female: 43.4% (2000 census)
Mauritius definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 84.4% male: 88.4% female: 80.5% (2000 census)
Mayotte NA
Mexico definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 91% male: 92.4% female: 89.6% (2004 est.)
Micronesia, Federated States of definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 89% male: 91% female: 88% (1980 est.)
Moldova definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99.1% male: 99.7% female: 98.6% (2005 est.)
Monaco definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99% male: 99% female: 99% (2003 est.)
Mongolia definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 97.8% male: 98% female: 97.5% (2000 census)
Montserrat definition: age 15 and over has ever attended school total population: 97% male: 97% female: 97% (1970 est.)
Morocco definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 52.3% male: 65.7% female: 39.6% (2004 census)
Mozambique definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 47.8% male: 63.5% female: 32.7% (2003 est.)
Namibia definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 85% male: 86.8% female: 83.5% (2001 census)
Nauru NA
Nepal definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 48.6% male: 62.7% female: 34.9% (2001 census)
Netherlands definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99% male: 99% female: 99% (2003 est.)
Netherlands Antilles definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 96.7% male: 96.7% female: 96.8% (2003 est.)
New Caledonia definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 96.2% male: 96.8% female: 95.5% (1996 census)
New Zealand definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99% male: 99% female: 99% (2003 est.)
Nicaragua definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 67.5% male: 67.2% female: 67.8% (2003 est.)
Niger definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 28.7% male: 42.9% female: 15.1% (2005 est.)
Nigeria definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 68% male: 75.7% female: 60.6% (2003 est.)
Niue definition: NA total population: 95% male: NA female: NA
Norfolk Island NA
Northern Mariana Islands definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 97% male: 97% female: 96% (1980 est.)
Norway definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 100% male: 100% female: 100%
Oman definition: NA total population: 81.4% male: 86.8% female: 73.5% (2003 census)
Pakistan definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 49.9% male: 63% female: 36% (2005 est.)
Palau definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 92% male: 93% female: 90% (1980 est.)
Panama definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 91.9% male: 92.5% female: 91.2% (2000 census)
Papua New Guinea definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 57.3% male: 63.4% female: 50.9% (2000 census)
Paraguay definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 94% male: 94.9% female: 93% (2003 est.)
Peru definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 87.7% male: 93.5% female: 82.1% (2004 est.)
Philippines definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 92.6% male: 92.5% female: 92.7% (2000 census)
Pitcairn Islands NA
Poland definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99.8% male: 99.8% female: 99.7% (2003 est.)
Portugal definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 93.3% male: 95.5% female: 91.3% (2003 est.)
Puerto Rico definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 94.1% male: 93.9% female: 94.4% (2002 est.)
Qatar definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 89% male: 89.1% female: 88.6% (2004 census)
Romania definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 97.3% male: 98.4% female: 96.3% (2002 census)
Russia definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99.4% male: 99.7% female: 99.2% (2002 census)
Rwanda definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 70.4% male: 76.3% female: 64.7% (2003 est.)
Saint Helena definition: age 20 and over can read and write total population: 97% male: 97% female: 98% (1987 est.)
Saint Kitts and Nevis definition: age 15 and over has ever attended school total population: 97.8% male: NA% female: NA% (2003 est.)
Saint Lucia definition: age 15 and over has ever attended school total population: 90.1% male: 89.5% female: 90.6% (2001 est.)
Saint Pierre and Miquelon definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99% male: 99% female: 99% (1982 est.)
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines definition: age 15 and over has ever attended school total population: 96% male: 96% female: 96% (1970 est.)
Samoa definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99.7% male: 99.6% female: 99.7% (2003 est.)
San Marino definition: age 10 and over can read and write total population: 96% male: 97% female: 95%
Sao Tome and Principe definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 84.9% male: 92.2% female: 77.9% (2001 census)
Saudi Arabia definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 78.8% male: 84.7% female: 70.8% (2003 est.)
Senegal definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 39.3% male: 51.1% female: 29.2% (2002 est.)
Serbia definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 96.4% male: 98.9% female: 94.1% (2003 census) note: includes Montenegro
Seychelles definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 91.8% male: 91.4% female: 92.3% (2002 census)
Sierra Leone definition: age 15 and over can read and write English, Mende, Temne, or Arabic total population: 35.1% male: 46.9% female: 24.4% (2004 est.)
Singapore definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 92.5% male: 96.6% female: 88.6% (2000 census)
Slovakia definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99.6% male: 99.7% female: 99.6% (2001 est.)
Slovenia definition: NA total population: 99.7% male: 99.7% female: 99.6%
Solomon Islands NA
Somalia definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 37.8% male: 49.7% female: 25.8% (2001 est.)
South Africa definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 86.4% male: 87% female: 85.7% (2003 est.)
Spain definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 97.9% male: 98.7% female: 97.2% (2003 est.)
Sri Lanka definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 90.7% male: 92.3% female: 89.1% (2001 census)
Sudan definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 61.1% male: 71.8% female: 50.5% (2003 est.)
Suriname definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 89.6% male: 92% female: 87.2% (2004 census)
Svalbard NA
Swaziland definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 81.6% male: 82.6% female: 80.8% (2003 est.)
Sweden definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99% male: 99% female: 99% (2003 est.)
Switzerland definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99% male: 99% female: 99% (2003 est.)
Syria definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 79.6% male: 86% female: 73.6% (2004 census)
Taiwan definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 96.1% male: NA female: NA (2003)
Tajikistan definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99.5% male: 99.7% female: 99.2% (2000 census)
Tanzania definition: age 15 and over can read and write Kiswahili (Swahili), English, or Arabic total population: 69.4% male: 77.5% female: 62.2% (2002 census)
Thailand definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 92.6% male: 94.9% female: 90.5% (2000 census)
Timor-Leste definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 58.6% male: NA female: NA (2002)
Togo definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 60.9% male: 75.4% female: 46.9% (2003 est.)
Tokelau NA
Tonga definition: can read and write Tongan and/or English total population: 98.9% male: 98.8% female: 99% (1999 est.)
Trinidad and Tobago definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 98.6% male: 99.1% female: 98% (2003 est.)
Tunisia definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 74.3% male: 83.4% female: 65.3% (2004 census)
Turkey definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 87.4% male: 95.3% female: 79.6% (2004 est.)
Turkmenistan definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 98.8% male: 99.3% female: 98.3% (1999 est.)
Turks and Caicos Islands definition: age 15 and over has ever attended school total population: 98% male: 99% female: 98% (1970 est.)
Tuvalu NA
Uganda definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 66.8% male: 76.8% female: 57.7% (2002 census)
Ukraine definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99.4% male: 99.7% female: 99.2% (2001 census)
United Arab Emirates definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 77.9% male: 76.1% female: 81.7% (2003 est.)
United Kingdom definition: age 15 and over has completed five or more years of schooling total population: 99% male: 99% female: 99% (2003 est.)
United States definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99% male: 99% female: 99% (2003 est.)
Uruguay definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 98% male: 97.6% female: 98.4% (2003 est.)
Uzbekistan definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99.3% male: 99.6% female: 99% (2003 est.)
Vanuatu definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 74% male: NA female: NA (1999 census)
Venezuela definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 93% male: 93.3% female: 92.7% (2001 census)
Vietnam definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 90.3% male: 93.9% female: 86.9% (2002 est.)
Virgin Islands definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 90-95% est. male: NA% female: NA% (2005 est.)
Wallis and Futuna definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 50% male: 50% female: 50% (1969 est.)
West Bank definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 92.4% male: 96.7% female: 88% (2004 est.)
Western Sahara NA
World 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.)
Yemen definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 50.2% male: 70.5% female: 30% (2003 est.)
Zambia definition: age 15 and over can read and write English total population: 80.6% male: 86.8% female: 74.8% (2003 est.)
Zimbabwe definition: age 15 and over can read and write English total population: 90.7% male: 94.2% female: 87.2% (2003 est.)
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Afghanistan males age 16-49: 7,431,147 females age 16-49: 7,004,819 (2008 est.)
Albania males age 16-49: 944,592 females age 16-49: 908,527 (2008 est.)
Algeria males age 16-49: 9,736,757 females age 16-49: 9,590,978 (2008 est.)
Andorra males age 16-49: 18,685 (2008 est.)
Angola males age 16-49: 2,856,492 females age 16-49: 2,755,864 (2008 est.)
Anguilla males age 16-49: 3,538 (2008 est.)
Antigua and Barbuda males age 16-49: 19,560 females age 16-49: 18,977 (2008 est.)
Argentina males age 16-49: 10,029,488 females age 16-49: 9,889,002 (2008 est.)
Armenia males age 16-49: 809,576 females age 16-49: 870,864 (2008 est.)
Aruba males age 16-49: 24,585 females age 16-49: 25,742 (2008 est.)
Australia males age 16-49: 4,999,988 females age 16-49: 4,870,043 (2008 est.)
Austria males age 16-49: 1,986,411 females age 16-49: 1,944,834 (2008 est.)
Azerbaijan males age 16-49: 2,278,888 females age 16-49: 2,291,770 (2008 est.)
Bahamas, The males age 16-49: 80,200 (2008 est.)
Bahrain males age 16-49: 210,938 females age 16-49: 170,471 (2008 est.)
Bangladesh males age 16-49: 41,199,340 (2008 est.)