EFA Global Monitoring Report
South and West Asia has the lowest regional adult literacy rate (58.6%).
Severe poverty correlates strongly with low literacy rates.
01:00:00:00 Nepal
01:00:51:00 India
01:01:07:17 Bangladesh
01:01:24:00 Adults literacy in South Asia
01:01:30:00 China
In Sub-Saharan Africa, the adult literacy rate is 59.7%.
01:01:47:00 Burkina Faso: the lowest adult literacy rates in the world (12.8%)
01:02:50:00 Mali: the adult literacy rate is 19%
Latin America
01:03:00:00 Guatemala is at serious risk of not halving its level of adult illiteracy by 2015
01:03:17:00 Sound bite: Nicholas Burnett, Director of the Global Monitoring
Report 2006
01:04:38:00 End
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| Publication Date |
23 Feb 2006 |
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