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The new five-year World’s Women UN Report is published, providing and assessment of progress towards gender equality worldwide in the areas of health, education, employment, power and decision making as well as representation of violence against women and women’s poverty. The new report indicates, inter alia, there are about 781 million illiterate adults (older than 15) in the world; 496 million of them are women. Throughout the world more than one half of the illiterate population are women. This ratio of men and women in the population of illiterate adults has not changed in the last 20 years, the report states.

Literacy rates have improved at the global level, although older people without the opportunity for education in their youth did not get adequate support in this area. Among people older than 65 years of age, 30% of women and 19% of men are illiterate. In some regions of the world, such as South America and the Caribbean, the literacy rate among older men and women is similar because many older women had access to adult literacy programmes.

The UN Report in its entirety can be found here.

Source: Network for European Women’s Lobby