Daily Sabah: Despite significant increase in literacy rates in the last 50 years, UNESCO Institute for Statistics indicate there still is 750 million illiterate adults in the world.
The latest data presented in a fact sheet showed that two-thirds of those that couldn’t read were women with 473 million while the figure in men stood at 277 million.
According to the research, challenges in gender disparity continue to persist in almost one on in five countries. Statistics showed that young women between ages 15 to 24 were less likely to have basic reading and writing skills than young men.
Illiteracy rates stood at 45 percent in South Asia, 27 percent in sub-Saharan Africa, 10 percent in East and Southeast Asia, 9 percent in Northern Africa and Western Africa, 4 percent in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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