UNESCO Office in Bangkok: Literacy and Lifelong Learning

Education building blocks

The map to literacy
27.03.12
Actions to spread literacy need to be accelerated, according to Roshan Bajracharya, a specialist in literacy and non-formal education statistics at UNESCO Bangkok. He warns that the overall literacy rate of the world is far too low, at 83 per cent in 2008 and progressing far too slow in reaching the global target literacy rate of 90.9 per cent by the target year of 2015.

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