DJIBOUTI
CÔTE
D’IVOIRE
NIGERIA
ETHIOPIA
C.A.R
BRUNEI
SOUTH
SUDAN
CAMEROON
GABON
CONGO
UGANDA
KENYA
SRI LANKA
EQ. GUINEA
SOMALIA
MALDIVES
MALAYSIA
NIGERIA
78m
SINGAPORE
SÃO TOME
& PRINCIPE
RWANDA
BURUNDI
D.R.
CONGO
SEYCHELLES
INDONESIA
203m
TANZANIA
PAPUA
NEW
GUINEA
COMOROS
NIGERIA
80m
There are over
33,800
separate Christian
denominations
ZAMBIA
BOTSWANA
ANGOLA
EAST TIMOR
MADAGASCAR
MALAWI
MAURITIUS
RÉUNION
ZIMBABWE
NAMIBIA
MOZAMBIQUE
SOUTH
AFRICA
LESOTHO
SWAZILAND
AUSTRALIA
NEW
ZEALAND
World faiths
Estimated number of followers
latest available data
Sikhism
24m
Judaism
13m
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GHANA
TOGO
BENIN
Literacy & Education
Literacy is simultaneously a functional need for modern societies, a basic tool
for individual advancement, and a personal source of knowledge, access to the
world and satisfaction. Thanks to a major international effort, trends in the last
decade have been positive. Although there remain places where adult illiteracy
rates are still over 50 per cent of the population, and in Africa and some other
areas, progress in secondary and tertiary education remains slow, primary
education, where the foundations are laid, has registered real forward movement.
Nonetheless, the challenge remains steep. The UN estimates that the world
needs 8 million more primary school teachers by 2015 in order to achieve its
Millennium Development Goal for education. Of these, 6 million are required
simply to replace others who will leave the teaching profession, while 2 million
are necessary extra teachers. And of those 2 million, more than half are needed
in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Haiti
Sub-Saharan
Africa 65%
72%
Oceania 73%
75%
Southern
Asia 60%
80%
Northern Africa 68%
87%
Youth literacy rate
1990 and 2009
World 83%
89%
Western Asia 87%
93%
Latin America & the Caribbean 92%
97%
South-Eastern Asia 94%
98%
Eastern Asia 95%
99%
Enrolment in education
2010 or latest available data
Primary
education
Percentage of children of the correct age
enrolled in primary school
Secondary
education
90% or more
70% – 89%
50% – 69%
30% – 49%
10% – 29%
fewer than 10%
no data
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Adult illiteracy
As percentage of adult population
2010 or latest available data
70% or more
50% – 69%
35% – 49%
Morocco
Mauritania
Senegal
Gambia
Guinea-
Bissau
Guinea
Sierra
Niger
Mali
Burkina
Faso
Ethiopia
South
Sudan
Nigeria
Togo
Benin
Côte
d'Ivoire
Leone
Liberia
Central
African
Republic
Yemen
Pakistan