Pillar
Socio-economic overview
Sub-pillar
Literacy
Portal Indicator name
Adult literacy rate, Adult Female
Metrics
Adult literacy rate
Dimension
Adult Female
Output type
%
Input metric (short definition)
Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above)
Long definition
Percentage of females age 15 and above who can, with understanding, read and write a short, simple statement on their everyday life. Generally, ‘literacy’ also encompasses ‘numeracy’, the ability to make simple arithmetic calculations. This indicator is calculated by dividing the number of female literates aged 15 years and over by the corresponding age group population and multiplying the result by 100.
License
CC BY-4.0
Source
World Bank
Regional aggregrational method
Weighted average
Regional aggregrational calculation
sum of all individual country (country data point*country female population over the age of 15)/(sum of all individual country female population over the age of 15)*100
Data Source