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Appendix Table B8: Literacy among children (all) in Nigeria
Could
read all
Could read
some
Could not
read any
Percent
Literate
Number of
Children
UBE Age
5 4.7 8.4 87.0 13.0 9,600
6 to 11 23.2 17.9 58.9 41.1 42,615
12 to 14 53.8 16.5 29.7 70.3 16,623
15 to 16 66.1 12.2 21.7 78.3 9,722
Residence
Urban 49.9 17.8 32.3 67.7 32,734
Rural 20.5 14.3 65.2 34.8 45,824
Region
North Central 25.9 17.8 56.3 43.7 11,688
North East 15.8 11.8 72.4 27.6 11,154
North West 16.9 10.6 72.5 27.5 20,947
South East 40.8 19.9 39.3 60.7 8,980
South South 50.2 21.3 28.5 71.5 11,509
South West 55.7 17.6 26.7 73.3 14,280
North
Central
Benue 20.1 18.1 61.8 38.2 2,513
Federal Capital
Territory
60.1 18.4 21.5 78.5 666
Kogi 37.5 14.1 48.4 51.6 1,933
Kwara 34.5 21.5 44.1 55.9 1,353
Nasarawa 21.2 17.0 61.9 38.1 1,078
Niger 15.8 20.5 63.7 36.3 2,340
Plateau 18.2 15.3 66.5 33.5 1,804
North
East
Adamawa 25.2 10.9 63.8 36.2 1,790
Bauchi 12.4 11.1 76.5 23.5 2,830
Borno 12.6 14.4 72.9 27.1 2,384
Gombe 21.2 12.8 66.0 34.0 1,392
Taraba 9.7 10.1 80.3 19.7 1,346
Yobe 16.8 10.7 72.5 27.5 1,412
North
West
Jigawa 9.7 7.3 83.0 17.0 2,545
Kaduna 33.4 10.8 55.8 44.2 3,313
Kano 18.9 9.7 71.5 28.5 5,654
Katsina 13.3 9.8 76.9 23.1 3,478