International Literacy Day «

International Literacy Day

Lets check where we stand among the Literate Nations in the World… Do click on country’s name to get detailed information about them. It links you to Wiki….

— United Nations Development Programme Report 2007/2008.

Rank	Country	Literacy rate ^[b]
1	Cuba	99.8
1	Estonia	99.8
1	Poland	99.8 ^[j]
4	Barbados	99.7 ^[j]
4	Latvia	99.7
4	Slovenia	99.7 ^[l]
7	Belarus	99.6
7	Lithuania	99.6
9	Kazakhstan	99.5
9	Tajikistan	99.5
11	Armenia	99.4
11	Hungary	99.4 ^[j]
11	Russia	99.4
11	Ukraine	99.4
11	Uzbekistan	99.4 ^[j]
16	Moldova	99.1 ^[l]
17	Australia	99.0 ^[d]
17	Austria	99.0 ^[d]
17	Belgium	99.0 ^[d]
17	Canada	99.0 ^[d]
17	Czech Republic	99.0 ^[d]
17	Denmark	99.0 ^[d]
17	Finland	99.0 ^[d]
17	France	99.0 ^[d]
17	Germany	99.0 ^[d]
17	Guyana	99.0 ^[j]
17	Iceland	99.0 ^[d]
17	Ireland	99.0 ^[d]
17	Japan	99.0 ^[d]
17	Republic of Korea	99.0 ^[d]
17	Luxembourg	99.0 ^[d]
17	Netherlands	99.0 ^[d]
17	New Zealand	99.0 ^[d]
17	Norway	99.0 ^[d]
17	Slovakia	99.0 ^[d]
17	Spain	99.0 ^[d]
17	Sweden	99.0 ^[d]
17	Switzerland	99.0 ^[d]
17	United Kingdom	99.0 ^[d]
17	United States See also: Literacy in the United States	99.0 ^[d]
41	Tonga	98.9
42	Azerbaijan	98.8
42	Turkmenistan	98.8
44	Albania	98.7
44	Kyrgyzstan	98.7
46	Samoa	98.6 ^[l]
47	Italy	98.4
47	Trinidad and Tobago	98.4 ^[l]
49	Bulgaria	98.2
50	Croatia	98.1
51	Mongolia	97.8
51	Saint Kitts and Nevis	97.8 ^[k]
53	Romania	97.3
54	Argentina	97.2
55	Israel	97.1 ^[k]
56	Cyprus	96.8
56	Uruguay	96.8
58	Bosnia and Herzegovina	96.7
59	Serbia	96.4
59	Maldives	96.3
60	Macedonia	96.1
61	Greece	96.0
61	Grenada	96.0 ^[q]
63	Bahamas	95.8 ^[j]
64	Chile	95.7
65	Costa Rica	94.9
66	Saint Lucia	94.8 ^[q]
67	Hong Kong	94.6 ^[j]
68	Fiji	94.4 ^[j]
69	Portugal	93.8 ^[l]
70	Paraguay	93.5 ^[l]
71	Kuwait	93.3
72	Venezuela	93.0
73	Colombia	92.8
74	Malta	92.8
75	Brunei Darussalam	92.7
76	Philippines	92.6
76	Thailand	92.6
78	Singapore	92.5
79	Palestinian Authority	92.4
80	Panama	91.9
81	Seychelles	91.8
82	Mexico	91.6
83	Jordan	91.1
84	Ecuador	91.0
85	China	90.9
86	Sri Lanka	90.7 ^[w]
87	Indonesia	90.4
88	Vietnam	90.3
89	Myanmar	89.9
90	Suriname	89.6
91	Zimbabwe	89.4 ^[l]
92	Qatar	89.0
93	Malaysia	88.7
93	United Arab Emirates	88.7 ^[l]
95	Brazil	88.6
96	Lebanon	88.3 ^[j]
97	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	88.1 ^[q]
98	Dominica	88.0 ^[q]
99	Peru	87.9
100	Turkey	87.4
101	Dominican Republic	87.0
101	Equatorial Guinea	87.0
103	Bolivia	86.7
104	Bahrain	86.5
105	Antigua and Barbuda	85.8 ^[q]
106	Namibia	85.0
107	Sao Tome and Principe	84.9
108	Republic of the Congo	84.7 ^[l]
109	Mauritius	84.3
110	Libya	84.2 ^[l]
111	Gabon	84.0 ^[l]
112	Saudi Arabia	82.9
113	Iran	82.4
113	South Africa	82.4
115	Lesotho	82.2
116	Oman	81.4
117	Botswana	81.2
117	Cape Verde	81.2 ^[l]
119	Syria	80.8
120	El Salvador	80.6 ^[l]
121	Honduras	80.0
122	Jamaica	79.9
123	Swaziland	79.6
124	Nicaragua	76.7
126	Solomon Islands	76.6 ^[k]
127	Belize	75.1 ^[q]
128	Tunisia	74.3
129	Vanuatu	74.0
130	Cambodia	73.6
131	Kenya	73.6
132	Egypt	71.4
133	Madagascar	70.7
134	Djibouti	70.3 ^[j]
135	Algeria	69.9
136	Tanzania	69.4
137	Guatemala	69.1
138	Nigeria	69.1 ^[l]
139	Laos	68.7
140	Zambia	68.0
141	Cameroon	67.9
142	Angola	67.4
143	Democratic Republic of the Congo	67.2
144	Uganda	66.8
145	Rwanda	64.9
146	Malawi	64.1
147	India	61.0
148	Sudan	60.9 ^[aa]
149	Eritrea	60.5 ^[j]
150	Burundi	59.3
151	Ghana	57.9
152	Papua New Guinea	57.3
153	Comoros	56.8 ^[j]
154	Haiti	54.8 ^[j]
155	Yemen	54.1 ^[l]
156	Togo	53.2
157	Morocco	52.3
158	Mauritania	51.2
159	Timor-Leste	50.1 ^[ab]
160	Pakistan	49.9
161	Côte d’Ivoire	48.7
162	Central African Republic	48.6
162	Nepal	48.6
164	Bangladesh	47.5
165	Bhutan	47.0 ^[v]
166	Guinea-Bissau	44.8 ^[j]
167	Gambia	42.5 ^[j]
168	Senegal	39.3
169	Mozambique	38.7
170	Ethiopia	35.9
171	Sierra Leone	34.8
172	Benin	34.7
173	Guinea	29.5
174	Niger	28.7
175	Chad	25.7
176	Mali	24.0
177	Burkina Faso	23.6

This entry was posted on Monday, September 7th, 2009 at 3:16 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

International Literacy Day

Leave a Reply