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Sub-Saharan Africa Compared by Education > Illiterate population by sex > Aged 15+ > Per capita

DEFINITION: Per capita figures expressed per 1,000 population.

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# COUNTRY AMOUNT DATE GRAPH HISTORY
1 Burkina Faso 383.12 per 1,000 people 2003
2 Niger 380.39 per 1,000 people 2003
3 Mali 376.19 per 1,000 people 2003
4 The Gambia 351.26 per 1,000 people 2003
5 Comoros 336.14 per 1,000 people 2003
6 Mauritania 327.63 per 1,000 people 2003
7 Ethiopia 309.18 per 1,000 people 2003
8 Senegal 308.06 per 1,000 people 2003
9 Mozambique 296.9 per 1,000 people 2003
10 Guinea-Bissau 279.56 per 1,000 people 2003
11 Benin 277.96 per 1,000 people 2003
12 Cote d'Ivoire 277.04 per 1,000 people 2003
13 Central African Republic 277.01 per 1,000 people 2003
14 Chad 265.06 per 1,000 people 2003
15 Liberia 263.24 per 1,000 people 2003
16 Burundi 257.51 per 1,000 people 2003
17 Eritrea 241.67 per 1,000 people 2003
18 Sudan 225.45 per 1,000 people 2003
19 Malawi 197.3 per 1,000 people 2003
20 Togo 184.5 per 1,000 people 2003
21 Democratic Republic of the Congo 182.5 per 1,000 people 2003
22 Madagascar 170.3 per 1,000 people 2003
23 Nigeria 162.06 per 1,000 people 2003
24 Djibouti 156.9 per 1,000 people 2003
25 Rwanda 156.83 per 1,000 people 2003
26 Cameroon 147.62 per 1,000 people 2003
27 Ghana 147.35 per 1,000 people 2003
28 Uganda 144.98 per 1,000 people 2003
29 Cape Verde 136.87 per 1,000 people 2003
30 Tanzania 125.96 per 1,000 people 2003
31 Lesotho 107.56 per 1,000 people 2003
32 Mauritius 105.5 per 1,000 people 2003
33 Botswana 105.39 per 1,000 people 2003
34 Zambia 101.43 per 1,000 people 2003
35 Swaziland 93.53 per 1,000 people 2003
36 South Africa 88.45 per 1,000 people 2003
37 Kenya 85.76 per 1,000 people 2003
38 Namibia 84.39 per 1,000 people 2003
39 Equatorial Guinea 82.93 per 1,000 people 2003
40 Zimbabwe 53.74 per 1,000 people 2003

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