Literacy rates, survey estimates vs. official UNESCO estimates, 2018
The demographic and health survey (DHS) estimate captures the share of adults surveyed who can read a whole orpart of a sentence shown to them. The official UNESCO estimate corresponds to the share of adults who say theycan read and write a short, simple statement about their everyday lives.
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