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population: 87.7%
  male: 93.5%
  female: 82.1% (2004 est.)

Philippines
  definition: age 15 and over can read and write
  total population: 92.6%
  male: 92.5%
  female: 92.7% (2000 census)

Pitcairn Islands
  NA

Poland
  definition: age 15 and over can read and write
  total population: 99.8%
  male: 99.8%
  female: 99.7% (2003 est.)

Portugal
  definition: age 15 and over can read and write
  total population: 93.3%
  male: 95.5%
  female: 91.3% (2003 est.)

Puerto Rico
  definition: age 15 and over can read and write
  total population: 94.1%
  male: 93.9%
  female: 94.4% (2002 est.)

Qatar
  definition: age 15 and over can read and write
  total population: 89%
  male: 89.1%
  female: 88.6% (2004 census)

Romania
  definition: age 15 and over can read and write
  total population: 97.3%
  male: 98.4%
  female: 96.3% (2002 census)

Russia
  definition: age 15 and over can read and write
  total population: 99.4%
  male: 99.7%
  female: 99.2% (2002 census)

Rwanda
  definition: age 15 and over can read and write
  total population: 70.4%
  male: 76.3%
  female: 64.7% (2003 est.)

Saint Helena
  definition: age 20 and over can read and write
  total population: 97%
  male: 97%
  female: 98% (1987 est.)

Saint Kitts and Nevis
  definition: age 15 and over has ever attended
  school
  total population: 97.8%
  male: NA%
  female: NA% (2003 est.)

Saint Lucia
  definition: age 15 and over has ever attended school
  total population: 90.1%
  male: 89.5%
  female: 90.6% (2001 est.)

Saint Pierre and Miquelon
  definition: age 15 and over can read and
  write
  total population: 99%
  male: 99%
  female: 99% (1982 est.)

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
  definition: age 15 and over has
  ever attended school
  total population: 96%
  male: 96%
  female: 96% (1970 est.)

Samoa
  definition: age 15 and over can read and write
  total population: 99.7%
  male: 99.6%
  female: 99.7% (2003 est.)

San Marino
  definition: age 10 and over can read and write
  total population: 96%
  male: 97%
  female: 95%

Sao Tome and Principe
  definition: age 15 and over can read and write
  total population: 84.9%
  male: 92.2%
  female: 77.9% (2001 census)

Saudi Arabia
  definition: age 15 and over can read and write
  total population: 78.8%
  male: 84.7%
  female: 70.8% (2003 est.)

Senegal
  definition: age 15 and over can read and write
  total population: 39.3%
  male: 51.1%
  female: 29.2% (2002 est.)

Serbia
  definition: age 15 and over can read and write
  total population: 96.4%
  male: 98.9%
  female: 94.1% (2003 census)
  note: includes Montenegro

Seychelles
  definition: age 15 and over can read and write
  total population: 91.8%
  male: 91.4%
  female: 92.3% (2002 census)

Sierra Leone
  definition: age 15 and over can read and write English,
  Mende, Temne, or Arabic
  total population: 35.1%
  male: 46.9%
  female: 24.4% (2004 est.)

Singapore
  definition: age 15 and over can read and write
  total population: 92.5%
  male: 96.6%
  female: 88.6% (2000 census)

Slovakia
  definition: age 15 and over can read and write
  total population: 99.6%
  male: 99.7%
  female: 99.6% (2001 est.)

Slovenia
  definition: NA
  total population: 99.7%
  male: 99.7%
  female: 99.6%

Solomon Islands
  NA

Somalia
  definition: age 15 and over can read and write
  total population: 37.8%
  male: 49.7%
  female: 25.8% (2001 est.)

South Africa
  definition: age 15 and over can read and write
  total population: 86.4%
  male: 87%
  female: 85.7% (2003 est.)

Spain
  definition: age 15 and over can read and write
  total population: 97.9%
  male: 98.7%
  female: 97.2% (2003 est.)

Sri Lanka
  definition: age 15 and over can read and write
  total population: 90.7%
  male: 92.3%
  female: 89.1% (2001 census)

Sudan
  definition: age 15 and over can read and write
  total population: 61.1%
  male: 71.8%
  female: 50.5% (2003 est.)

Suriname
  definition: age 15 and over can read and write
  total population: 89.6%
  male: 92%
  female: 87.2% (2004 census)

Svalbard
  NA

Swaziland
  definition: age 15 and over can read and write
  total population: 81.6%
  male: 82.6%
  female: 80.8% (2003 est.)

Sweden
  definition: age 15 and over can read and write
  total population: 99%
  male: 99%
  female: 99% (2003 est.)

Switzerland
  definition: age 15 and over can read and write
  total population: 99%
  male: 99%
  female: 99% (2003 est.)

Syria
  definition: age 15 and over can read and write
  total population: 79.6%
  male: 86%
  female: 73.6% (2004 census)

Taiwan
  definition: age 15 and over can read and write
  total population: 96.1%
  male: NA
  female: NA (2003)

Tajikistan
  definition: age 15 and over can read and write
  total population: 99.5%
  male: 99.7%
  female: 99.2% (2000 census)

Tanzania
  definition: age 15 and over can read and write Kiswahili
  (Swahili), English, or Arabic
  total population: 69.4%
  male: 77.5%
  female: 62.2% (2002 census)

Thailand
  definition: age 15 and over can read and write
  total population: 92.6%
  male: 94.9%
  female: 90.5% (2000 census)

Timor-Leste
  definition: age 15 and over can read and write
  total population: 58.6%
  male: NA
  female: NA (2002)

Togo
  definition: age 15 and over can read and write
  total population: 60.9%
  male: 75.4%
  female: 46.9% (2003 est.)

Tokelau
  NA

Tonga
  definition: can read and write Tongan and/or English
  total population: 98.9%
  male: 98.8%
  female: 99% (1999 est.)

Trinidad and Tobago
  definition: age 15 and over can read and write
  total population: 98.6%
  male: 99.1%
  female: 98% (2003 est.)

Tunisia
  definition: age 15 and over can read and write
  total population: 74.3%
  male: 83.4%
  female: 65.3% (2004 census)

Turkey
  definition: age 15 and over can read and write
  total population: 87.4%
  male: 95.3%
  female: 79.6% (2004 est.)

Turkmenistan
  definition: age 15 and over can read and write
  total population: 98.8%
  male: 99.3%
  female: 98.3% (1999 est.)

Turks and Caicos Islands
  definition: age 15 and over has ever
  attended school
  total population: 98%
  male: 99%
  female: 98% (1970 est.)

Tuvalu
  NA

Uganda
  definition: age 15 and over can read and write
  total population: 66.8%
  male: 76.8%
  female: 57.7% (2002 census)

Ukraine
  definition: age 15 and over can read and write
  total population: 99.4%
  male: 99.7%
  female: 99.2% (2001 census)

United Arab Emirates
  definition: age 15 and over can read and write
  total population: 77.9%
  male: 76.1%
  female: 81.7% (2003 est.)

United Kingdom
  definition: age 15 and over has completed five or
  more years of schooling
  total population: 99%
  male: 99%
  female: 99% (2003 est.)

United States
  definition: age 15 and over can read and write
  total population: 99%
  male: 99%
  female: 99% (2003 est.)

Uruguay
  definition: age 15 and over can read and write
  total population: 98%
  male: 97.6%
  female: 98.4% (2003 est.)

Uzbekistan
  definition: age 15 and over can read and write
  total population: 99.3%
  male: 99.6%
  female: 99% (2003 est.)

Vanuatu
  definition: age 15 and over can read and write
  total population: 74%
  male: NA
  female: NA (1999 census)

Venezuela
  definition: age 15 and over can read and write
  total population: 93%
  male: 93.3%
  female: 92.7% (2001 census)

Vietnam
  definition: age 15 and over can read and write
  total population: 90.3%
  male: 93.9%
  female: 86.9% (2002 est.)

Virgin Islands
  definition: age 15 and over can read and write
  total population: 90-95% est.
  male: NA%
  female: NA% (2005 est.)

Wallis and Futuna
  definition: age 15 and over can read and write
  total population: 50%
  male: 50%
  female: 50% (1969 est.)

West Bank
  definition: age 15 and over can read and write
  total population: 92.4%
  male: 96.7%
  female: 88% (2004 est.)

Western Sahara
  NA

World
  definition: age 15 and over can read and write
  total population: 82%
  male: 87%
  female: 77%
  note: over two-thirds of the world's 785 million illiterate adults
  are found in only eight countries (India, China, Bangladesh,
  Pakistan, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Indonesia, and Egypt); of all the
  illiterate adults in the world, two-thirds are women; extremely low
  literacy rates are concentrated in three regions, South and West
  Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Arab states, where around
  one-third of the men and half of all women are illiterate (2005 est.)

Yemen
  definition: age 15 and over can read and write
  total population: 50.2%
  male: 70.5%
  female: 30% (2003 est.)

Zambia
  definition: age 15 and over can read and write English
  total population: 80.6%
  male: 86.8%
  female: 74.8% (2003 est.)

Zimbabwe
  definition: age 15 and over can read and write English
  total population: 90.7%
  male: 94.2%
  female: 87.2% (2003 est.)

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Afghanistan
  males age 16-49: 7,431,147
  females age 16-49: 7,004,819 (2008 est.)

Albania
  males age 16-49: 944,592
  females age 16-49: 908,527 (2008 est.)

Algeria
  males age 16-49: 9,736,757
  females age 16-49: 9,590,978 (2008 est.)

Andorra
  males age 16-49: 18,685 (2008 est.)

Angola
  males age 16-49: 2,856,492
  females age 16-49: 2,755,864 (2008 est.)

Anguilla
  males age 16-49: 3,538 (2008 est.)

Antigua and Barbuda
  males age 16-49: 19,560
  females age 16-49: 18,977 (2008 est.)

Argentina
  males age 16-49: 10,029,488
  females age 16-49: 9,889,002 (2008 est.)

Armenia
  males age 16-49: 809,576
  females age 16-49: 870,864 (2008 est.)

Aruba
  males age 16-49: 24,585
  females age 16-49: 25,742 (2008 est.)

Australia
  males age 16-49: 4,999,988
  females age 16-49: 4,870,043 (2008 est.)

Austria
  males age 16-49: 1,986,411
  females age 16-49: 1,944,834 (2008 est.)

Azerbaijan
  males age 16-49: 2,278,888
  females age 16-49: 2,291,770 (2008 est.)

Bahamas, The
  males age 16-49: 80,200 (2008 est.)

Bahrain
  males age 16-49: 210,938
  females age 16-49: 170,471 (2008 est.)

Bangladesh
  males age 16-49: 41,199,340 (2008 est.)

Barbados
  males age 16-49: 75,265
  females age 16-49: 75,389 (2008 est.)

Belarus
  males age 16-49: 2,491,643
  females age 16-49: 2,528,779 (2008 est.)

Belgium
  males age 16-49: 2,407,128
  females age 16-49: 2,340,039 (2008 est.)

Belize
  males age 16-49: 74,605
  females age 16-49: 72,926 (2008 est.)

Benin
  males age 16-49: 1,908,457
  females age 16-49: 1,882,421 (2008 est.)

Bermuda
  males age 16-49: 15,623 (2008 est.)

Bhutan
  males age 16-49: 190,104
  females age 16-49: 167,289 (2008 est.)

Bolivia
  males age 16-49: 2,295,746
  females age 16-49: 2,366,828 (2008 est.)

Bosnia and Herzegovina
  males age 16-49: 1,212,007
  females age 16-49: 1,170,645 (2008 est.)

Botswana
  males age 16-49: 487,853
  females age 16-49: 464,278 (2008 est.)

Brazil
  males age 16-49: 52,449,957
  females age 16-49: 52,375,921 (2008 est.)

British Virgin Islands
  males age 16-49: 7,101 (2008 est.)

Brunei
  males age 16-49: 108,356
  females age 16-49: 110,153 (2008 est.)

Bulgaria
  males age 16-49: 1,701,979
  females age 16-49: 1,691,092 (2008 est.)

Burkina Faso
  males age 16-49: 3,364,288 (2008 est.)

Burma
  males age 16-49: 13,402,788
  females age 16-49: 13,437,042 (2008 est.)

Burundi
  males age 16-49: 1,878,544
  females age 16-49: 1,851,676 (2008 est.)

Cambodia
  males age 16-49: 3,759,034
  females age 16-49: 3,784,333 (2008 est.)

Cameroon
  males age 16-49: 4,321,175
  females age 16-49: 4,228,625 (2008 est.)

Canada
  males age 16-49: 8,072,010
  females age 16-49: 7,813,462 (2008 est.)

Cape Verde
  males age 16-49: 103,650
  females age 16-49: 103,553 (2008 est.)

Cayman Islands
  males age 16-49: 11,790 (2008 est.)

Central African Republic
  males age 16-49: 1,032,828
  females age 16-49: 999,330 (2008 est.)

Chad
  males age 16-49: 1,906,545
  females age 16-49: 2,258,758 (2008 est.)

Chile
  males age 16-49: 4,242,912
  females age 16-49: 4,182,509 (2008 est.)

China
  males age 16-49: 375,009,345
  females age 16-49: 354,314,328 (2008 est.)

Colombia
  males age 16-49: 11,478,109
  females age 16-49: 11,809,279 (2008 est.)

Comoros
  males age 16-49: 167,850
  females age 16-49: 167,362 (2008 est.)

Congo, Democratic Republic of the
  males age 16-49: 14,101,263 (2008
  est.)

Congo, Republic of the
  males age 16-49: 842,771
  females age 16-49: 833,624 (2008 est.)

Costa Rica
  males age 16-49: 1,134,205
  females age 16-49: 1,095,763 (2008 est.)

Cote d'Ivoire
  males age 16-49: 4,369,735
  females age 16-49: 4,287,042 (2008 est.)

Croatia
  males age 16-49: 1,035,712
  females age 16-49: 1,037,896 (2008 est.)

Cuba
  males age 16-49: 3,094,388
  females age 16-49: 3,024,876 (2008 est.)

Cyprus
  Greek Cypriot National Guard (GCNG):
  males age 16-49: 199,767
  females age 16-49: 190,665 (2008 est.)

Czech Republic
  males age 16-49: 2,522,383
  females age 16-49: 2,425,095 (2008 est.)

Denmark
  males age 16-49: 1,235,067
  females age 16-49: 1,215,418 (2008 est.)

Djibouti
  males age 16-49: 111,274
  females age 16-49: 105,168 (2008 est.)

Dominica
  males age 16-49: 18,584 (2008 est.)

Dominican Republic
  males age 16-49: 2,440,203
  females age 16-49: 2,326,694 (2008 est.)

Ecuador
  males age 16-49: 3,536,602
  females age 16-49: 3,559,188 (2008 est.)

Egypt
  males age 16-49: 21,247,777
  females age 16-49: 20,406,408 (2008 est.)

El Salvador
  males age 16-49: 1,634,816
  females age 16-49: 1,775,474 (2008 est.)

Equatorial Guinea
  males age 16-49: 136,725
  females age 16-49: 138,018 (2008 est.)

Eritrea
  males age 16-49: 1,108,836
  females age 16-49: 1,096,120 (2008 est.)

Estonia
  males age 16-49: 306,273
  females age 16-49: 317,852 (2008 est.)

Ethiopia
  males age 16-49: 17,666,967
  females age 16-49: 17,530,211 (2008 est.)

Faroe Islands
  males age 16-49: 11,725 (2008 est.)

Fiji
  males age 16-49: 242,567
  females age 16-49: 238,556 (2008 est.)

Finland
  males age 16-49: 1,169,910
  females age 16-49: 1,121,187 (2008 est.)

France
  males age 16-49: 14,646,427
  females age 16-49: 14,379,630 (2008 est.)

French Polynesia
  males age 16-49: 79,540 (2008 est.)

Gabon
  males age 16-49: 331,181
  females age 16-49: 332,498 (2008 est.)

Gambia, The
  males age 16-49: 379,668
  females age 16-49: 384,438 (2008 est.)

Gaza Strip
  males age 16-49: 337,670 (2008 est.)

Georgia
  males age 16-49: 1,113,251
  females age 16-49: 1,168,021 (2008 est.)

Germany
  males age 16-49: 19,594,118
  females age 16-49: 18,543,955 (2008 est.)

Ghana
  males age 16-49: 5,802,096
  females age 16-49: 5,729,939 (2008 est.)

Gibraltar
  males age 16-49: 6,308 (2008 est.)

Greece
  males age 16-49: 2,535,174
  females age 16-49: 2,517,273 (2008 est.)

Greenland
  males age 16-49: 15,221 (2008 est.)

Grenada
  males age 16-49: 27,309 (2008 est.)

Guatemala
  males age 16-49: 2,861,696
  females age 16-49: 3,062,967 (2008 est.)

Guinea
  males age 16-49: 2,230,049
  females age 16-49: 2,193,236 (2008 est.)

Guinea-Bissau
  males age 16-49: 344,087
  females age 16-49: 347,886 (2008 est.)

Guyana
  males age 16-49: 220,797 (2008 est.)

Haiti
  males age 16-49: 2,047,083
  females age 16-49: 2,047,953 (2008 est.)

Honduras
  males age 16-49: 1,868,940
  females age 16-49: 1,825,770 (2008 est.)

Hong Kong
  males age 16-49: 1,772,820
  females age 16-49: 1,941,448 (2008 est.)

Hungary
  males age 16-49: 2,391,400
  females age 16-49: 2,337,240 (2008 est.)

Iceland
  males age 16-49: 74,896 (2008 est.)

India
  males age 16-49: 301,094,084
  females age 16-49: 283,047,141 (2008 est.)

Indonesia
  males age 16-49: 63,800,825
  females age 16-49: 61,729,717 (2008 est.)

Iran
  males age 16-49: 20,212,275
  females age 16-49: 19,638,751 (2008 est.)

Iraq
  males age 16-49: 7,086,200
  females age 16-49: 6,808,954 (2008 est.)

Ireland
  males age 16-49: 1,024,635
  females age 16-49: 1,024,276 (2008 est.)

Israel
  males age 16-49: 1,717,362
  females age 16-49: 1,636,574 (2008 est.)

Italy
  males age 16-49: 13,884,079
  females age 16-49: 13,158,378 (2008 est.)

Jamaica
  males age 16-49: 688,480
  females age 16-49: 709,548 (2008 est.)

Japan
  males age 16-49: 27,819,804
  females age 16-49: 26,863,794 (2008 est.)

Jordan
  males age 16-49: 1,812,551
  females age 16-49: 1,559,155 (2008 est.)

Kazakhstan
  males age 16-49: 4,176,731
  females age 16-49: 4,219,636 (2008 est.)

Kenya
  males age 16-49: 9,044,685
  females age 16-49: 8,805,736 (2008 est.)

Kiribati
  males age 16-49: 26,377 (2008 est.)

Korea, North
  males age 16-49: 6,225,747
  females age 16-49: 6,188,270 (2008 est.)

Korea, South
  males age 16-49: 13,691,809
  females age 16-49: 13,029,859 (2008 est.)

Kuwait
  males age 16-49: 1,032,408
  females age 16-49: 568,657 (2008 est.)

Kyrgyzstan
  males age 16-49: 1,398,878
  females age 16-49: 1,419,374 (2008 est.)

Laos
  males age 16-49: 1,549,774
  females age 16-49: 1,570,702 (2008 est.)

Latvia
  males