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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 8 February 2025. This article needs to be updated. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (March 2022) World map of countries shaded according to the literacy rate for all people aged 15 and over This is a list of countries by literacy rate. The global ...
New Zealand has an adult literacy rate of 99 percent, [113] and over half of the population aged 15 to 29 hold a tertiary qualification. [ 109 ] [ n 9 ] In the adult population 14.2 percent have a bachelor's degree or higher, 30.4 percent have some form of secondary qualification as their highest qualification and 22.4 percent have no formal ...
Australia, New Zealand: Oceania: ... This page was last edited on 13 January 2024, at 14:33 ... List of countries by youth literacy rate.
Obesity rate – 22nd highest obesity rate out of 191 countries, at 30.8% according to The World Factbook. In 2005 the International Agency for Research on Cancer found New Zealand men and women to have the third highest cancer rates in the world. [8] [9] In 2012, New Zealand had the 12th highest rate of cancer out of the 34 OECD countries.
Just 67% of eighth-graders score at or above a basic level. American students’ reading skills are at their lowest level since testing began over 30 years ago
The Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) [1] is an international study of reading (comprehension) achievement in 9–10 year olds. It has been conducted every five years since 2001 by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA).
Countries with the lowest literacy rates in the world are Burkina Faso (12.8%), Niger (14.4%) and Mali (19%). The report shows a clear connection between illiteracy and countries in extreme poverty , also between illiteracy and prejudice against women .
Susan Elaine Sandretto is an American–New Zealand academic, and is a full professor at the University of Otago, specialising in working with teachers to develop critical literacy in primary and secondary school pupils. Sandretto also works on unintended consequences of educational policy, such as changes to active transport.