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Literacy & Education

Literacy is simultaneously a functional need for modern societies, a basic tool

for individual advancement, and a personal source of knowledge, access to the

world and satisfaction. Thanks to a major international effort, trends in the last

decade have been positive. Although there remain places where adult illiteracy

rates are still over 50 per cent of the population, and in Africa and some other

areas, progress in secondary and tertiary education remains slow, primary

education, where the foundations are laid, has registered real forward movement.

Nonetheless, the challenge remains steep. The UN estimates that the world

needs 8 million more primary school teachers by 2015 in order to achieve its

Millennium Development Goal for education. Of these, 6 million are required

simply to replace others who will leave the teaching profession, while 2 million

are necessary extra teachers. And of those 2 million, more than half are needed

in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Haiti

Sub-Saharan

Africa 65%

72%

Oceania 73%

75%

Southern

Asia 60%

80%

Northern Africa 68%

87%

Youth literacy rate

1990 and 2009

World 83%

89%

Western Asia 87%

93%

Latin America & the Caribbean 92%

97%

South-Eastern Asia 94%

98%

Eastern Asia 95%

99%

Enrolment in education

2010 or latest available data

Primary

education

Percentage of children of the correct age

enrolled in primary school

Secondary

education

90% or more

70% – 89%

50% – 69%

30% – 49%

10% – 29%

fewer than 10%

no data

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