United Nations ACC Task Force on Basic Social Services for All AFRICA School enrolment ratio Adult primary & secondary literacy rate (%) (%) female male female male ------ ---- ------ ---- Algeria 79 89 51 26 -------------------------------------------------------------- Angola 45 .. .. -------------------------------------------------------------- Benin 26 54 74 51 -------------------------------------------------------------- Botswana 93 91 40 20 -------------------------------------------------------------- Burkina Faso 19 31 91 71 -------------------------------------------------------------- Burundi 35 44 78 51 -------------------------------------------------------------- Cameroon 53 63 48 25 -------------------------------------------------------------- Cape Verde 81 85 36 19 -------------------------------------------------------------- Central African Republic 31 (*) 54 (*) 48 32 -------------------------------------------------------------- Chad 20 46 65 38 -------------------------------------------------------------- Comoros 44 53 50 36 -------------------------------------------------------------- Congo .. .. 33 17 -------------------------------------------------------------- Cote d'Ivoire 39 58 70 50 -------------------------------------------------------------- Djibouti 22 30 67 40 -------------------------------------------------------------- Egypt 81 93 61 36 -------------------------------------------------------------- Equatorial Guinea .. .. 32 10 -------------------------------------------------------------- Eritrea 28 37 .. .. -------------------------------------------------------------- Ethiopia 16 24 75 55 -------------------------------------------------------------- Gabon .. .. 47 26 -------------------------------------------------------------- Gambia 35 53 75 47 -------------------------------------------------------------- Ghana 50 65 47 24 -------------------------------------------------------------- Guinea 19 41 78 50 -------------------------------------------------------------- Guinea-Bissau 27 (*) 49 (*) 58 32 -------------------------------------------------------------- Kenya 71 73 30 14 -------------------------------------------------------------- Lesotho 78 67 38 19 -------------------------------------------------------------- Liberia .. .. 78 46 -------------------------------------------------------------- Libyan Arab Jamahiriya 103 107 37 12 -------------------------------------------------------------- Madagascar 42 43 .. .. -------------------------------------------------------------- Malawi 83 92 58 28 -------------------------------------------------------------- Mali 15 26 77 61 -------------------------------------------------------------- Mauritania 38 50 74 50 -------------------------------------------------------------- Mauritius (1) 80 79 21 13 -------------------------------------------------------------- Morocco 50 68 69 43 -------------------------------------------------------------- Mozambique 29 41 77 42 -------------------------------------------------------------- Namibia 112 106 .. .. -------------------------------------------------------------- Niger 13 23 93 79 -------------------------------------------------------------- Nigeria 56 70 53 33 -------------------------------------------------------------- Reunion .. .. .. .. -------------------------------------------------------------- Rwanda 49 51 48 30 -------------------------------------------------------------- Senegal 31 44 77 57 -------------------------------------------------------------- Sierra Leone 29 43 82 55 -------------------------------------------------------------- Somalia 7 (*) 13 (*) .. .. -------------------------------------------------------------- South Africa 105 102 18 18 -------------------------------------------------------------- Sudan 34 43 65 42 -------------------------------------------------------------- Swaziland 92 97 24 22 -------------------------------------------------------------- Togo 48 80 63 33 -------------------------------------------------------------- Tunisia 82 89 45 21 -------------------------------------------------------------- Uganda 41 53 50 26 -------------------------------------------------------------- United Rep. of Tanzania 43 45 43 21 -------------------------------------------------------------- Western Sahara .. .. .. .. -------------------------------------------------------------- Zaire 39 58 32 13 -------------------------------------------------------------- Zambia 58 66 29 14 -------------------------------------------------------------- Zimbabwe 81 90 20 10 -------------------------------------------------------------- Notes: Data are shown only for countries or areas with population size of 150,000 or more in 1995 as estimated by Population Division of Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis of the United Nations Secretariat (Population Division/DESIPA). Two dots (..) indicate that data are not available. (1) Including Agalesa, Rodrigues and St. Brandon. Gross enrolment ratio for primary and secondary school combined The total enrolment, regardless of age, in primary and secondary education as a proportion of the population of primary- and secondary- school age according to national regulations. Data are shown for the latest available year. Data before 1990 are shown with an (*). School-age ranges vary by country, but are typically 6 to 11 years for primary school and 12 to 17 years for secondary school. It should be noted that the gross enrolment ratio can exceed 100, since it includes all pupils whatever their ages, whereas the population is limited to the range of official school ages. From UNESCO Statistical Yearbook 1996 (UNESCO publishing and Bernan Press). Adult illiteracy rate The proportion of the population who are illiterate, expressed as a percentage of the population aged 15 years or above. A person is illiterate who cannot, with understanding, both read and write a short simple statement on everyday life. From Compendium of Statistics on Illiteracy - 1995 Edition (UNESCO). Recent data are not available for many developed countries; UNESCO estimates that illiteracy averaged around 1 per cent in those countries in 1995. United Nations publication, (ST/ESA/SER.A/160) Copyright (C) United Nations 1997