Pakistan ahead of India in literacy rate: UN

[Silent observer]

The news, 24 dec 2009

UNITED NATIONS: A United Nations agency UNFPA has said in its report that India lags behind Pakistan in literacy rate as the literacy rate here in Pakistan is much more higher than that of its rival neighbor.

According to report, total 32.3 percent male while 60.4 percent female aged above 15 years are literate in Pakistan,

But however, on the contrary to aforementioned calculation, there are only 23.1 percent male and 45.5 percent female aged over 15 years enjoy education in India.

that was rather a surprise for me. i dont know how much is this true.

there are some aspects attached to literacy rates like what is definition of literacy and second what kind of education people are getting etc...

comments guys

 

[ssheppard]

This news is only Published in Pakistani Media ....any Neutral source:

Care to share the UN report link....

 

[Hari]

Hi Silent observer

THis news item was discussed here before

http://www.defence.pk/forums/economy-development/28931-literacy-south-asia-2.html#post553924

"The figures in your post are about Illiteracy rate". India and Pakistan need to work more on providing quality education to the people

 

[pagans]

HIIIIIIIIII
How comes females have more literacy than males. It never happened anywhere on earth.

 

[forcetrip]

India also has a higher population to feed and educate. Either way .. no excuse for illiteracy.

 

[Silent observer]

This news is only Published in Pakistani Media ....any Neutral source:

Care to share the UN report link....

the frontier post

ISLAMABAD (APP): A United Nations Fund for Population (UNFPA) report says that education and literacy indicators in Pakistan are better than neighboring India, however, infant mortality ratio per 1, 000 births is still alarming in Pakistan. It says the infant mortality ratio per 1, 000 live births is 62 in Pakistan whereas in India the same ratio is 53 per 1, 000 live births. Meanwhile, maternal mortality ratio in Pakistan is 320 per 100, 000 live births while in India the figure is 450, said the report. As per details regarding education, the reports elaborated that in Pakistan 32.3 percent male and 60.4 percent female above 15 years of age are literate. In India 23.1 percent male and 45.5 percent female above the same age are literate. In Pakistan, gross primary enrollment ratio is 101 male and 83 girls while in India it is 114 and 109 male and female, respectively, the report said. However, it did not mention that whether the figure was calculated as per 1, 000 or under per cent proportions. The proportion said that 68 male and 72 female out of above mentioned reach to education grade five in Pakistan while in India it is as lower as 59 male and 49 females, the report said

this is another newspaper from pakistan which is publishing the same news. i am trying to find a neutral source. i will post ASAP

 

[Silent observer]

HIIIIIIIIII
How comes females have more literacy than males. It never happened anywhere on earth.

yes interesting and india also has more literacy rates among females.

 

[Silent observer]

Hi Silent observer

THis news item was discussed here before

http://www.defence.pk/forums/economy-development/28931-literacy-south-asia-2.html#post553924

"The figures in your post are about Illiteracy rate". India and Pakistan need to work more on providing quality education to the people

yes hari, you are right. the thing that matters is quality of education as i have mentioned in my first post as well

 

[Goodperson]

Hi Silent observer

THis news item was discussed here before

http://www.defence.pk/forums/economy-development/28931-literacy-south-asia-2.html#post553924

"The figures in your post are about Illiteracy rate". India and Pakistan need to work more on providing quality education to the people

Hey you are so cruel couldn't you keep quite for sometime ?

 

[Mak Kam]

That is obvious.How can a country have high litracy rate where highest number of labours are children!!!???

 

[Silent observer]

Gender gaps are among the widest in South Asia. Pakistan is ranked at 132, third from the bottom on a list of 134 nations compiled by the World Economic Forum for 2009. Only Chad and Yemen rank worse than Pakistan. This is not a surprise considering one of the lowest female literacy rates in Pakistan. Pakistan's gender gap of 27% in literacy is worse than India's 22%. At overall literacy rate of only 52%, and with more than 50 million people illiterate, Pakistan has one of the lowest overall literacy rates in Asia. The literacy rate for males over 15 years is 63% while that for females is 36% in Pakistan. Only Yemen's literacy rate and gender gap are worse than South Asia's.

S ri Lanka, ranked at 16 ahead of the United States at 31, is the shining exception to the rest of South Asia in terms of gender parity.

Ranked 114, India has fared better than Pakistan. But the WEF survey indicates that India is behind Bangladesh (94) and Nepal (110) - affirming that women in these countries share resources with men more equally than in India. Echoing concerns of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen over fe male infanticide and 25 million "missing women" in India, the WEF rankings bring out the gender gap on health and survival issues. India's ge nder gap of 22% in literacy is also among the worst in the world.

WEF said close to 300 Indian women die every day during childbirth or of pregnancy-related causes, and the country has the worst sex ratios at birth in the world, ranking 131st on this variable. India holds last place among the BRIC countries on the the WEF gender Index, behind Russia (51), China (60) and Brazil (82).

sorry guys, the original news is as shown above, it is not literacy but gender gaps in literacy.
i am sorry for posting the wrong news but it is present all over the news of pakistan.
i am posting the original indicator list published by UN

http://www.unfpa.org/swp/2005/images/e_indicator1.pdf

 

[Bas_tum_Pak]

Reports says that "total 32.3 percent male while 60.4 percent female aged above 15 years are literate in Pakistan"
&
"there are only 23.1 percent male and 45.5 percent female aged over 15 years enjoy education in India."

So it is Not Literacy Rate ? What you will say above calculations ?

 

[Silent observer]

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wrong thread mate

anyhow thanks for the info

 

[Bas_tum_Pak]

wrong thread mate

anyhow thanks for the info

Sorry For this , But I Edited.

 

[bandit]

The news, 24 dec 2009

UNITED NATIONS: A United Nations agency UNFPA has said in its report that India lags behind Pakistan in literacy rate as the literacy rate here in Pakistan is much more higher than that of its rival neighbor.

According to report, total 32.3 percent male while 60.4 percent female aged above 15 years are literate in Pakistan,

But however, on the contrary to aforementioned calculation, there are only 23.1 percent male and 45.5 percent female aged over 15 years enjoy education in India.

that was rather a surprise for me. i dont know how much is this true.

there are some aspects attached to literacy rates like what is definition of literacy and second what kind of education people are getting etc...

comments guys

Comments on what....some illiterate reporter not able to read facts???

Indian literacy rate is much higher than Pakistan...maybe the reporter was on some Afghan opium when he wrote the report

Here are some facts not from Pak media but UNICEF itself--

Pakistan--Total adult literacy rate (%), 2000–2007*-- 55%
UNICEF - Pakistan - Statistics

India--Total adult literacy rate (%), 2000–2007*-- 66%
UNICEF - India - Statistics