United Nations, January 20: India still has the largest number of illiterate adults in the world, but has made “rapid advances” in cutting down the numbers of school outs, a new UN report on education has said.
The Education For All?Global Monitoring Report, released here today finds that out of the total 759 million illiterate adults in the world, India still has the highest number.
“Over half of the illiterate adults live in just four countries: Bangladesh, China, India and Pakistan,” the report said, adding the progress has been “painfully slow” and threatens to obstruct the Millennium Development Goals.
It said about 72 million primary school age children and another 71 million adolescents are not at school, and on current trends, 56 million primary school age children will still be out of school in 2015, it said.
–PTI