Ahead of the International Women's Day, the International Rescue Committee has released a report on the five most dangerous places in the world to be an adolescent girl. Taking into consideration data on child marriage, adolescent birth rates, literacy, rates of violence and child labor, the IRC named Niger, Yemen, Bangladesh, South Sudan and the Central African Republic as the most dangerous for young girls.

About half of India is illiterate, and their literacy often isn't about English, so many are not becoming Westernized.

In this modern age, computer literacy is a must at any accounting firm.

Wasima Khan dropped out of school six years ago. She is not an exception but the norm in Nuh, a district in northern India where the female literacy rate of about 30% is barely half the national average.

Many new teachers feel ill-prepared to teach basic literacy and numeracy.

In China, there is a large number of characters, so the goal of the character simplification was to replace the complex traditional characters with easy to remember simplified characters and increase the literacy rate.

Algeria promotes literacy including in the Berber language.

News literacy is the ability to use critical thinking skills to judge news reports. Are they credible? Can you rely on the reports to be true?

The overall literacy rate is around 55%, and is significantly lower for women than for men.

Secondly, the literacy rate in Europe of that time was low.