Female youth illiteracy and girls as head of h LEGEND Female illiteracy between age 15-24 % 45 - 77 27 - 44
Niger Mali
7 - 26 0-6 No data data
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Girls as head of households between age 15-19
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Haiti Dominican Republic
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Burkina Faso
% !
0 - 0.6
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! 0.6 - 1.5
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1.5 - 2.6
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2.6 - 5.1
DR Congo
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Country Labels Grey: Top 10 recipients of humanitarian aid from 2001-2010
Black: Additional countries featuring primary research for this report
Proportion of girls aged 1 heads of house
Female Youth Illiteracy Rate, Age 15-24 (%) Country
168
%
Country
%
Country
%
Sudan
16
Haiti
30
Sudan
No data
Palestine
1
DR Congo
38
Palestine
No data
Afghanistan
No data
Somalia
No data
Afghanistan
No data
Ethiopia
53
Indonesia
1
Ethiopia
3.17
Iraq
19
Bangladesh
22
Iraq
No data
Pakistan
39
Philippines
2
Pakistan
0.52
t h e s tat e o f t h e w o r l d ’ s g i r l s S E C T I O N 3