Laos plans to increase its literacy rate to 77.5 percent this year from roughly 76 percent last year, Lao newspaper Vientiane Times reported Tuesday.
Some 77.5 percent of Laos' total population, including 84 percent of people in the age bracket of 15-40, will have been literate by the end of 2007, the newspaper quoted Lao Deputy Minister of Education Sengdeuane Lachanthaboun as saying.
Last year, 40,000 Lao people aged 15 upwards achieved literacy, over half of whom are women, she noted.
Before 1975, the illiteracy rate in Laos was as high as 95 percent, the newspaper said.
Source: Xinhua
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