The State of the World Atlas [ff]. Dan Smith

      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