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

Publication Date 23 Feb 2006
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