Literacy rate - WHO | World Health Organization

The proportion of the adult population aged 15 years and over which is literate, expressed as a percentage of the corresponding population, total or for a given ... TheGlobalHealthObservatoryExploreaworldofhealthdata IndicatorsCountries GlobalHealthObservatory GHOHome Indicators Countries DataAPI GHOODataAPI AthenaAPI MapGallery Publications DataSearch Home/ Data/ GHO/ IndicatorMetadataRegistryList/ Literacyrate × Subscribeheretoreceivenotificationswhenevercontentonthispagechanges. Subscribe Alreadysubscribed?Tounsubscribeclickhere. × Datatype:Percent Topic: Demographicandsocio-economicstatistics Definition:Theproportionoftheadultpopulationaged15yearsandoverwhichisliterate,expressedasapercentageofthecorrespondingpopulation,totalorforagivensex,inagivencountry,territory,orgeographicarea,ataspecificpointintime,usuallymid-year.Forstatisticalpurposes,apersonisliteratewhocanwithunderstandingbothreadandwriteashortsimplestatementonhis/hereverydaylife.Disaggregation:SexMethodofmeasurementLiteracyratedefinitioncomplieswiththerevisedrecommendationconcerningtheInternationalStandardizationofEducationalStatistics,adoptedbytheUnitedNationsEducational,ScientificandCulturalOrganization(UNESCO).Literacyratedatarepresentmid-yearestimatedvalues.Methodofestimation:-UnitMultiplier:-2Comments:'Percent'asunitmaybeincorrect. Links: PAHOGlossary||http://www.paho.org/English/SHA/glossary.htm Ifyouhaveanyfeedback,youarewelcometowriteithere. IfyouneedtoaccesstheoldGlobalHealthObservatorydata,youcandoithere.Butbeforeyouleave,pleaseprovideusyourfeedbackaboutournewdataportal. × FeedbackforthenewGHOportal Yourname* Youre-mailaddress* Thee-mailformatis"[email protected]" Comments* Submitthefeedback