: NA%
female: NA% (1999 est.)

Venezuela
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 93.4%
male: 93.8%
female: 93.1% (2003 est.)

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

Virgin Islands
definition: NA
total population: NA%
male: NA%
female: NA%

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: 91.9%
male: 96.3%
female: 87.4% (2003 est.)

Western Sahara
definition: NA
total population: NA%
male: NA%
female: 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.)

This page was last updated on 20 October, 2005

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Afghanistan
males age 22-49: 4,952,812 (2005 est.)

Albania
males age 19-49: 809,524 (2005 est.)

Algeria
males age 19-49: 8,033,049 (2005 est.)

Angola
males age 17-49: 2,423,221 (2005 est.)

Argentina
males age 18-49: 8,981,886 (2005 est.)

Armenia
males age 18-49: 722,836 (2005 est.)

Australia
males age 16-49: 4,943,676 (2005 est.)

Austria
males age 18-49: 1,914,800 (2005 est.)

Azerbaijan
males age 18-49: 1,961,973 (2005 est.)

Bahrain
males age 18-49: 202,126 (2005 est.)

Bangladesh
males age 18-49: 35,170,01