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Sub-Saharan Africa Compared by Education > Illiteracy rates by sex > Aged 15+ > Women

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# COUNTRY AMOUNT DATE GRAPH HISTORY
1 Niger 90.2% 2003
2 Burkina Faso 83.4% 2003
3 Mali 82% 2003
4 Benin 73.5% 2003
5 Guinea-Bissau 72.4% 2003
6 Senegal 69.2% 2003
7 Mauritania 68.1% 2003
8 Mozambique 67.3% 2003
9 The Gambia 66.9% 2003
10 Ethiopia 64.8% 2003
11 Chad 60.7% 2003
12 Central African Republic 60.1% 2003
13 Liberia 59.5% 2003
14 Cote d'Ivoire 59.1% 2003
15 Burundi 54.8% 2003
16 Togo 53.1% 2003
17 Eritrea 52.4% 2003
18 Comoros 50.7% 2003
19 Malawi 50.3% 2003
20 Sudan 49.5% 2003
21 Democratic Republic of the Congo 44.9% 2003
22 Djibouti 41.6% 2003
23 Uganda 39.6% 2003
24 Nigeria 39% 2003
25 Madagascar 37.5% 2003
26 Rwanda 35.2% 2003
27 Ghana 32.7% 2003
28 Cameroon 32.1% 2003
29 Cape Verde 30.9% 2003
30 Tanzania 29.4% 2003
31 Zambia 25.2% 2003
32 Equatorial Guinea 21.6% 2003
33 Kenya 20.3% 2003
34 Swaziland 19.2% 2003
35 Botswana 17.6% 2003
36 Mauritius 17.4% 2003
37 Namibia 16.3% 2003
38 South Africa 14.3% 2003
39 Zimbabwe 12.9% 2003
40 Lesotho 5.5% 2003

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