Ratio of young literate females to males (% ages 15-24) - Outcomes - Education - World Development Indicators

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Ratio of young literate females to males is the percentage of females to males ages 15-24 who can, with understanding, read and write a short, simple statement on their everyday life.

Rank	Country	Value
Ratio of young literate females to males (% ages 15-24) - Outcomes - Education - World Development Indicators (2008)
1	Lesotho	115
2	Liberia	114
3	Jamaica	107
4	Papua New Guinea	106
5	Mongolia	104
6	Namibia	104
7	Botswana	103
8	Bangladesh	103
9	Swaziland	103
10	Mauritius	102
11	Philippines	102
12	Cape Verde	102
13	Sri Lanka	101.29
14	El Salvador	101.13
15	Costa Rica	101
16	Sao Tome and Principe	101
17	South Africa	101
18	Hungary	101
19	Kenya	101
20	Zimbabwe	101
21	Colombia	100.90
22	Uruguay	100.70
23	Latin America & Caribbean	100.63
24	Spain	100.08
25	Chile	100.08
26	Aruba	100
27	Romania	100
28	Albania	100
29	Netherlands Antilles	100
30	Argentina	100
31	Armenia	100
32	Portugal	100
33	Uzbekistan	100
34	Belarus	100
35	Brunei Darussalam	100
36	Estonia	100
37	China	100
38	Vanuatu	100
39	Poland	100
40	Lithuania	100
41	Cuba	100
42	Cyprus	100
43	Samoa	100
44	Latvia	100
45	Equatorial Guinea	100
46	Kazakhstan	100
47	Croatia	100
48	Kyrgyzstan	100
49	Malaysia	100
50	Bahrain	100
51	New Caledonia	100
52	Libya	100
53	Macedonia	100
54	Moldova	100
55	Russia	100
56	Rwanda	100
57	Greece	100
58	Singapore	100
59	Panama	100
60	Italy	100
61	Trinidad and Tobago	100
62	Slovenia	100
63	Georgia	100
64	Tajikistan	100
65	Turkmenistan	100
66	Bulgaria	100
67	Ukraine	100
68	Oman	99.99
69	Mexico	99.95
70	Upper middle income	99.88
71	East Asia & Pacific	99.83
72	West Bank and Gaza	99.76
73	Europe & Central Asia	99.20
74	Bosnia and Herzegovina	99
75	Puerto Rico	99
76	Vietnam	99
77	Burma	99
78	Suriname	99
79	Tunisia	98
80	Malawi	98
81	Burundi	98
82	Comoros	98
83	Saudi Arabia	98
84	Gabon	98
85	Ghana	97
86	Tanzania	97
87	Syria	97
88	Uganda	96
89	Iraq	95
90	Guatemala	95
91	Cameroon	95
92	Middle income	93.63
93	Low & middle income	93.58
94	Low income	93.31
95	Middle East & North Africa	93.14
96	Eritrea	93
97	Cambodia	93
98	Lower middle income	92.13
99	Sudan	92
100	Togo	92
101	Least developed countries: UN classification	91.02
102	Mauritania	90
103	Democratic Republic of the Congo	90
104	Sub-Saharan Africa	88.24
105	Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC)	88.06
106	Nepal	87
107	South Asia	85.36
108	Gambia	83
109	Ivory Coast	83
110	Nigeria	82
111	Zambia	82
112	Morocco	81
113	Angola	81
114	Mozambique	80
115	Guinea-Bissau	79
116	Central African Republic	78
117	Pakistan	74.86
118	Yemen	74
119	Chad	70
120	Sierra Leone	69
121	Benin	66

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