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EDUCATION STATISTICS FROM 2000 CENSUS

Literacy rate of citizen population aged >15 years by language, sex and sector, census 2000

  Total Urban Rural
Literacy Persons Males Females Persons Males Females Persons Males Females
                   
Total 56.2 61.2 50.9 86.2 88.6 83.3 51.7 56.8 46.3
                   
Literate in English 40.4 45.4 35.0 74.6 78.3 70.2 35.2 40.1 30.0
Literate in Pidgin 45.2 51.0 38.9 76.6 80.5 72.0 40.4 46.3 34.2
Literate in Motu 5.0 6.0 4.0 17.0 18.2 15.7 3.2 4.0 2.4
Literate in Tokples 41.7 45.4 37.7 62.5 65.2 59.4 38.5 42.3 34.6

 

 

 

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