{"id":3902,"date":"2013-06-25T14:02:35","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T18:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/?p=3902"},"modified":"2013-06-25T14:05:06","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T18:05:06","slug":"male-and-female-literacy-rates-by-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/06\/25\/male-and-female-literacy-rates-by-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Male and Female Literacy Rates by Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/global-literacy-rates.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3903\" alt=\"global literacy rates\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/global-literacy-rates.png\" width=\"2480\" height=\"1754\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/global-literacy-rates.png 2480w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/global-literacy-rates-300x212.png 300w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/global-literacy-rates-1024x724.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/global-literacy-rates-424x300.png 424w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2480px) 100vw, 2480px\" \/><\/a>Literacy rate is defined as the number of people 15 years or older who can read and write. According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oii.ox.ac.uk\/publications\/convoco_geographies_en.pdf\">study<\/a> published by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oii.ox.ac.uk\/vis\/?id=4e3c0198\">Oxford Internet Institute<\/a> at University of Oxford, global literacy rate is 82%. While the literacy rate for men is 87%, the rate for women is 77%.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Looking at data per continent, we find that countries in the Americas are highly literate, 99% for both men and women in the United States, and 97% for both men and women in Argentina. European countries show high literacy rates as well, above 91% for both men and women.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Many nations in Asia also show high literacy rates, except for countries like India, certain neighboring countries and countries in the Middle East, where the literacy rates are even lower for women.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Most African countries have very low literacy rates, with few exceptions: South Africa, Lesotho, Kenya, and Namibia.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='Male and Female Literacy Rates by Country' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/06\/25\/male-and-female-literacy-rates-by-country\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='Male and Female Literacy Rates by Country' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/06\/25\/male-and-female-literacy-rates-by-country\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='Male and Female Literacy Rates by Country' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/06\/25\/male-and-female-literacy-rates-by-country\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='Male and Female Literacy Rates by Country' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/06\/25\/male-and-female-literacy-rates-by-country\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Literacy rate is defined as the number of people 15 years or older who can read and write. According to a study published by the Oxford Internet Institute at University of Oxford, global literacy rate is 82%. While the literacy rate for men is 87%, the rate for women is 77%. Looking at data per [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='Male and Female Literacy Rates by Country' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/06\/25\/male-and-female-literacy-rates-by-country\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='Male and Female Literacy Rates by Country' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/06\/25\/male-and-female-literacy-rates-by-country\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='Male and Female Literacy Rates by Country' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/06\/25\/male-and-female-literacy-rates-by-country\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='Male and Female Literacy Rates by Country' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/06\/25\/male-and-female-literacy-rates-by-country\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[107,10,24,165,25,77,31,212,16,32,455,9,555,453,118,454,527,30],"tags":[1374,936,526,1368,1107,1109,1106,1108,386],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3902"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3902"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3949,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3902\/revisions\/3949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}