Literacy in England (Total Population): 99%
According to https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/print/uk.html
The literacy rate in Brunei in 2012 was an average of about 92.7%. 95.2% of the male population there is literate and 90.2% of the female population is literate.
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Only the ones trained as scribes were literate. They comprised a tiny portion of the population.
The literacy rate in Brunei in 2010 was an average of about 92.7%. 95.2% of the male population there is literate and 90.2% of the female population is literate.
70.4% of Rwanda's population is literate.
According to Zellyne Jennings-Craig article in the Jamaica Gleaner entitled "How literate are we?'a survey was done in 1999 and published in 2001 on literacy. It revealed that 79.9 % of the population is literate. However that was when the population was at 1.5 million.
According to UNICEF, approximately 88% of adults in South Africa are literate, while 96% of all youth (15-24) are literate. 86.5% of the entire population is literate, and with a population of 48,687,000 around 42,114,255 people in South Africa are literate.
Around 94% of the population over the age of 15 can read and write.
According to the TIME/Britannica Almanac 2010:(Figures for Chad as of 2007):Percentage of literate males 15 and older: . . . 61.5%Percentage of literate females 15 and older: . . . 46.3%Percentage of total population age 15 and over literate: . . . 53.7%
The literacy rate of the United States is 99%. The population of the US is about 315,000,000 so the literate population is about 311,850,000.
It indicates that a country is underdeveloped as a country such as Germany has a low population rate due to family planning and educated and literate mothers compared to a country like Chad where the number of literate females is only 23%
86.7 % of the population over the age of 15 are literate.