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	Literacy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The history of literacy goes back several thousand years, but before the industrial revolution finally made cheap paper and cheap books available to all classes in industrialized countries in the mid-nineteenth century, only a small percentage of the population in these countries were literate.
		In New England, the literacy rate was over 50 percent during the first half of the 17th century, and it rose to 70 percent by 1710.
		Some have suggested that the higher the literacy rate of a country, generally the longer the life span, although critics have argued that this is a Post hoc fallacy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Literacy (3201 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Literacy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The history of literacy is several thousand years old, but before the industrial revolution finally made cheap paper and cheap books available to all classes in industrialized countries, in the mid-nineteenth century, literacy existed only in a tiny minority of the world's different societies.
		Already in the church law (kyrkolagen) of 1686, literacy was enforced on the people and a hundred years later (by the end of the 18th century), the literacy rate was close to 100 percent.
		Some have suggested that the lower the illiteracy rate of a country, generally the longer the life span, although critics have argued that this is a Post hoc fallacy.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Literacy (2169 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Literacy Rate
		The history of literacy is several thousand years old, but before the industrial revolution finally made cheap paper and cheap books available to all classes in industrialized countries, about a century and a half ago, literacy existed only in a tiny minority of the world's different societies.
		The use of an ideogram based writing system makes basic literacy relatively easier to attain than the use of an alphabet based one, so it is estimated that through the more prosperous decades of her different imperial dynasties China reached very high levels of basic, functional, literacy.
		The literacy rate in 15-35 age-group was 66 per cent with male and female literacy rates at 77 per cent and 54 per cent respectively.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Literacy-Rate (2002 words)

	Literacy Online - Papers from the 2nd Asia Regional Literacy Forum
		On the other handy infant mortality rate, birth rate and total fertility rate are negatively correlated, The lower the educational level of the mother, the more number of children born to her, the greater are the risks of reproductive mortality/ morbidity.
		It is seen that literacy rate varied between 2504 percent for rural female and 54.5 percent for urban females in 1991.
		Of the 20 major states, 9 states have literacy rates for males and females that are higher than the national average for male and female in 19619 11 states in 1971.
	www.literacyonline.org /products/ili/webdocs/nagara.html (1998 words)

	PIB Press Release
		Literacy rate for all the religious groups, as revealed again for the first time in 2001 Census, were very encouraging, shattering many myths in circulation earlier when such a dataset was not available for the country as a whole.
		Known as gender gap in literacy rate, for all religions combined for the country as per 2001 Census was 21.6 percentage point.
		The gender gap in literacy rate among Muslims was 17.5 and among the Sikhs 12.8.
	www.pib.nic.in /release/release.asp?relid=3724 (1376 words)

	Pakistan Link
		For young women, the literacy rate is 43% in 1997, and for men it was 67% nationwide.
		Punjab’s rate in 1997 was 47%, with the urban rate at 66% (male 73%, female 57%).
		The young adult literacy rate in Punjab is 70% for males and 50% for females.
	www.pakistanlink.com /nayyer/04132001.html (828 words)

	Female literacy: Jains zip ahead of all
		Overall literacy rate for all the religious groups, as revealed again for the first time in 2001 Census, was very encouraging, shattering 'many myths' in circulation earlier when such a dataset was not available for the country as a whole, the report said.
		The literacy rate among the Hindus at 65.1 per cent was slightly better than the the national average of 64.8 per cent for all religious groups combined.
		Among the Muslims, literacy rate was 59.1 per cent and the highest litercay rate was recorded among the Jains at 94.1 per cent followed by Christians 80.3 per cent, Buddhists at 72.7 per cent and Sikhs at 69.4 per cent, the report said.
	www.rediff.com /news/2004/sep/08jain.htm (342 words)

	Pakistan Times \| National: 'Pakistan's literacy rate nearly 54%'
		The literacy rate for male and female are 70% and 51% respectively, she added.
		The 34% population of Balochistan are literate and the literacy rate of male and female is about 45% and 23% respectively, she added.
		She, however, said literacy rate in the world is calculated for 15+ population whereas in Pakistan, it is estimated for population 10+.●
	www.pakistantimes.net /2004/07/15/national4.htm (223 words)

	International Literacy Day: Facts about illiteracy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The average adult literacy rate among that population is an estimated 31 percent.
		The average adult literacy rate in their mother tongue among speakers of lesser-known languages is an estimated 12 percent.
		The average literacy rate in these countries is 63 percent.
	www.sil.org /literacy/LitFacts.htm (323 words)

	NationMaster - Statistics > Literacy > Total population by country
		Low literacy levels (by whatever definitions or measurements) are endemic across the globe, the relative costs and benefits of literacy programs are as yet poorly understood, and innovative approaches to literacy improvement have common elements that can be addressed through a better understanding of the nature of literacy and literacy education programs.
		The relatively higher growth in literacy rate of females (14.9 points) compared to that of males (11.7 points) between 1991 and 2001, hides the fact that between 1991 and 2001, the increase in the number of literate females was a little less than the increase in the number of literate males.
		Literacy rate for population 7 years and above has operational significance and according to international usage this is the rate which is relevant in analysis of trends and in inter-country comparison.
	www.nationmaster.com /graph-T/edu_lit_tot_pop (3773 words)

	Rotary International LiteracyTask Force
		Literacy is the single most important factor for human economic upliftment and better quality of life.
		It has been seen that the higher the literacy rate of a community or a country is, the better is the health and living conditions of its people.
		Literacy is directly proportionate to the human progress, and it is literacy that breaks the cycle of poverty, hunger and disease, continuing generation after generation.
	www.frankdevlyn.org /literacy (670 words)

	State literacy rate increases by 9 per cent,
		The literacy rate in the state has increased from 65.38 per cent in 1991 to 70 percent in 2001 as per the preliminary reports of the census.
		Interestingly, the literacy rate in men and women, which was 73 and 49 per cent respectively in 1991 has increased to 80.50 per cent in men and 56.60 per cent in women suggesting an increase in literacy
		rate in Vadodara is 87.15.Ahmedabad, 84.29, Surat, 83.40, Rajkot 83.82, Bhavnagar 82.38 and Jamnagar 77.46.
	www.ahmedabad.com /news/2k1/apr/28ltrcy.htm (344 words)

	How almost everyone in Kerala learned to read \| csmonitor.com
		Kerala was the first state in India to declare total literacy in one town in 1989, and subsequently, total literacy in a whole region in 1990.
		"Literacy is a prerequisite for social development," says P.K. Ravindran, a former president of the Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad, a group that gave a push to the state's literacy movement in the 1980s.
		While literacy rates in Kerala had outstripped those in other Indian states for some decades, it wasn't until the late 1980s that the Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad - a regional group originally organized as an association of science writers - embraced the cause of total literacy.
	www.csmonitor.com /2005/0517/p12s01-legn.htm (979 words)

	UNDP Iraq
		The results of education reform in the 1970s and 1980s are evident in the high literacy rates in the adult population.
		This is slightly higher than the literacy rate for the population at large yet it is lower than literacy rates for the age group 25-34, indicating that the younger generation lags behind its predecessors on educational performance.
		The literacy rate for women in Iraq has stagnated and, in some governorates, the level of female illiteracy is very high.
	www.iq.undp.org /ILCS/education.htm (749 words)

	CPS May (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This is an increase of 12percent from the 68.9percent of 1993.
		The lowest rate was recorded in Kweneng West with 58 percent (64 percent males and 53 percent females) and Gantsi District with 60percent adult literacy rate (64 percent males and 56 percent females).
		Kgatleng District with 75 percent adult literacy rate, recorded the highest gap of adult literacy rate between males and females, with 70 percent males and 80 percent females.
	www.cso.gov.bw /html/liter_survey.htm (324 words)

	Child labour: The education challenge
		The literacy rate of the Scheduled Castes in West Bengal is 42.21 per cent of the total SC population of the State - - this ranks way behind that of most other states in India.
		The literacy rate of the Scheduled Tribe are - - 27.78 present of the total ST population in the state - - again, way behind that in most other states in the country.
		The literacy rate varies from 90% for rich urban males to a mere 17% for poor, rural, Scheduled Caste women.
	www.pucl.org /from-archives/Child/child-labour.htm (711 words)

	Government Relations: Legislative Quick Hits
		Our position: AEP has joined the Literacy Rate Coalition, which supports a "Literacy Postal Rate." The key position of this coalition, as stated in a letter sent to Congress, is: As part of its efforts to reform the Postal Service, Congress should act now to restore a reasonable and effective rate provision for educational materials.
		This rate should be a special category within the subclass of BPM, and designated for literacy and educational materials shipped into schools, libraries, and literacy programs, and should be set at 75 percent of the otherwise-applicable BPM rate.
		The Literacy Rate Coalition was formed in 2004 to bring the combined weight and influence of the organizations to the postal rate issue.
	www.edpress.org /govrelations/literacyrate.htm (592 words)

	World Literacy of Canada - Facts & Figures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The adult literacy rate in South Asia (49%) has now slipped behind sub-Saharan Africa (57%) as well as that of Arab states (59%) and since 1970 has increased at only half the rate of those regions.
		Sri Lanka is one of the literacy success stories in South Asia -- the total adult literacy rate in Sri Lanka is 90%, with a 94% literacy rate for men and an 87% literacy rate for women.
		Nepal has the lowest female literacy rate in the world at 13% and the fourth lowest adult literacy rate in the world at a total of 28%.
	www.worldlit.ca /facts.html (1058 words)

	UNESCO - E-9 Initiative
		Democratization of education through the expansion of elementary education (both formal and non-formal methods), and expanded adult education, literacy and functional literacy programs, as a basic requirement for economic development, modernization of social structure and for providing equality of opportunity for all citizens.
		It pledges to double the literacy rate, universalize primary education, replicate the non-formal schools to reach the un-reached, widen the learning time by reducing school holidays, improve the assessment system through introduction of National Testing Service, and initiate the decentralization process through the formation of District Education Authorities.
		The PMLC, which is the apex body entrusted with the task of raising the literacy rate, will be strengthened as a Statutory Body to enable it to discharge its functions effectively within the minimum possible time.
	www.unesco.org /education/e9/countries/pakistan_indicators4.shtml (1146 words)

	District of Columbia: Mayor's Office: Literacy Rate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		What are your plans to improve the literacy rate in the District?
		So, we are getting serious about improving the literacy rate in our city.
		As a community, we can move the District from one of the lowest literacy rates in the nation to one of the highest by the end of this decade.
	www.dc.gov /mayor/issues/2003/february/02_13_03/literacy_rate/1.shtm (190 words)

	People's Daily Online -- Roundup: Myanmar strives for raising literacy rate to boost education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Myanmar has been striving for raising the literacy rate of its people, scoring up to 94.1 percent literacy rate in 2005 through launching of series of mass campaigns on literacy in different eras.
		According to researchers, Myanmar's literacy rate once stood high long ago due to literacy and cultural courses conducted at monasteries in the country.
		Myanmar targets to attain a literacy rate of 95.5 percent in the next three years through literacy programs which mostly cover remote border areas where many ethnic groups were denied for many years access to having the skill to read and write.
	english.people.com.cn /200609/08/eng20060908_300901.html (541 words)

	Ethiopia - Literacy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The literacy rate, under 10 percent during the imperial regime, increased to about 63 percent by 1984, according to government figures.
		In 1990/91 an adult literacy rate of just over 60 percent was still being reported in government as well as in some international reports.
		As some observers pointed out, defining just what the term "literacy" means presented a problem; in addition, the military government's desire to report as high a literacy rate as possible had to be taken into account.
	countrystudies.us /ethiopia/73.htm (412 words)

	Literacy
		Literacy continues to be a focus of the work of the Summer Institute of Linguistics internationally and in the Philippines.
		Our desire is that, beginning from initial literacy, the learner will develop a desire to maintain their reading and writing skills and that these will provide the basis for continuing education, benefiting the individual, the community in which he lives and his nation.
		MALEI (Matigsalug Literacy Education Incorporated) oversees the on-going development of literacy and education among the Matigsalug Manobo of Davao del Norte and Bukidnon.
	www.sil.org /asia/philippines/ovw_literacy.html (1073 words)

	Literacy Rate In Kenya in directory.co.uk
		Literacy Rate -- the percentage of the population 15 years and older who can read and write.
		A project which goes beyond literacy to give learners the means to solve problems, improve their families' health, and start small-scale...
		List of countries by literacy rate, as included in the United Nations Development Programme Report 2005...
	www.directory.co.uk /Literacy_Rate_in_Kenya.htm (205 words)

	Debating India - India's literacy rate stands at 64.8% (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		While male literacy rate stood at 75.3 per cent, female literacy rate was 53.7 per cent, Registrar General of India J K Banthia told a seminar on Census Data Dissemination here.
		Male literacy went up by 11 per cent and female literacy by 14.4 per cent as compared to the figures in the 1991 Census.
		Work Participation Rate (WPR), an indicator of percentage of workers to total population, was 39.1 per cent, an increase of 1.6 per cent over that in the 1991 Census.
	india.eu.org /1963.html (331 words)

	Literacy in Belize
		From the perspective of formal education the adult literacy rate is often quoted as high as 76%, however the last comprehensive survey to be completed in Belize found that the functional literacy rate was approximately 40%.
		It is thought that Cayo has this low rate of literacy due to the fact that it is very large and encompasses many decentralized villages.
		Based on the data collected by the Ministry of Education on literacy rates, the large disparity found between basic literacy and functional literacy is directly reflective of the performance of the public education system.
	www.peacecorner.org /belizeliteracy-2.htm (681 words)

	Gulfnews: UAE's female literacy rate up
		Qatar's male-female literacy gap has been bridged but in the UAE women have outpaced men in education.
		Unicef statistics showed female literacy in the UAE stood at 79 per cent at the end of 2000 while male literacy was put at 75 per cent.
		In 1990, both male and female literacy rates were equal at 71 per cent and experts attributed female progress to stronger interest by women and more social freedom.
	www.gulf-news.com /Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=108223 (165 words)

	Interactive Table of National Literacy
		Click on the Literacy Rate category to sort the nations.
		Male Literacy Rate -- the percentage of the adult male population 15 years and older who can read and write.
		Female Literacy Rate -- the percentage of the adult female population 15 years and older who can read and write.
	www.mrdowling.com /800literacy.html (193 words)

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