| Literacy rate (1997) | 83.6% |
| Illiterate population | 152.9 millions |
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| 1. Literacy rate (15 years and above) |
| 1990 | 1997 | Percentage points change | |
| Total | 77.7 | 83.6 | 5.9 |
| Female |
68.0 |
76.8 | 8.8 |
| Male | 87.0 | 90.4 | 3.4 |
| Rural | ... | ... | ... |
| Urban | ... | ... | ... |
| 2. Illiterate population (15 years and above, in thousands) |
| 1990 | 1997 | Change | |
| Total | 182,246 | 152,945 | -29,301 |
| Female |
127,724 |
109,231 | -18,493 |
| Male | 54,522 | 43,714 | -10,808 |
| Rural | ... | ... | ... |
| Urban | ... | ... | ... |
| 3. Definition of literacy |
| Minimum literacy standards of individuals are 1500 characters recognition for a rural inhabitants; 2000 characters recognition for a worker or staff member employed by an enterprise or institution or for an urban inhabitant. Besides, a neo-literate should be able read easy popular papers and magazines and essays, to be able to keep simple accounts, and to be able to write simple and applications-oriented essays. |
| 4. Literacy target |
| less than 10% illiteracy rate for adults (15+) and less than 1% illiteracy rate for young and middle age in 2010. |
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