Ali Baqerzadeh, in a news conference on the occasion of the commemoration week of the Literacy Movement, said: "Imam Khomeini said to the Iranian people to rise up and honor literacy so that everyone can learn how to read and write in this country.”
He added: “In literacy, in the age group of 15 and above, in 1976, Iran was 36 percent literate and the global average was 69 percent. According to the 1995 census and the World Bank report of 2016, the literacy rate of 15 years and older people reached 86%, while the global average was 82.2.”
The head of the Literacy Movement said: "The world has experienced a literacy rate of 13.2 percent over the past 38 years, and Iran has experienced a 50 percent growth rate of literacy."
The literacy rate of women aged 15 to 24 in Iran is 97 percent
Deputy Minister of Education added: "In the age group of 15 to 24 years, the literacy rate in Iran in the year 1997 was about 56.1% and the world average was 77.6%. The literacy rate of youth from 15 to 24 has risen to 97.4 percent, with world average of 91.4. "
In the age group of 10 to 29 years, 28 provinces have a literacy rate of over 97 percent, and eight provinces with a maximum of 99 percent, and the remaining percentage is unintuitive.
"The average literacy rate of the world in the 15 to 24 years of the past 38 years was 13.8 percent, and the figure was 41.3 percent in the years after the revolution," Bagherzadeh said. Girls of this age at the beginning of the victory were 42 percent literate and the world average was 84.4. But now the literacy rates of women aged 15 to 24 are 97 percent and the world average has reached 89.9, but in the 25-64 age group of Iran, 61 percent of women's literacy rate is 61 percent and for men 53.7 percent.”
He added: "In the years 2002 and 2016, we were about three times the world average, but the age group of 10-49 has now reached 97.8%."
About 28 percent of Iran's illiterates are foreign nationals
Head of the Organization for the Advancement of Literacy said: "The age range of 10 to 29 years old in the 28 governorates, the literacy rate is over 97 percent and in 8 provinces is higher than 99 percent. In the age group of 10 to 49, 11 provinces are above 97 percent. In the age group of 10 to 19 years old, because of foreign nationals, the average of literacy is low, while the rate for the foreign nationals is 3.3."
The Afghan literacy rate is 57 percent, and the literacy rate of foreign citizens in Iran is 65 percent
Bagherzadeh said: “By the end of last week, about 380,000 people enrolled in official literacy programs, which is equivalent to 90% of the quantitative targets for the year 2018 and an increase of 13% compared to last year. Of these, 18 percent are men, 82 percent are women, 44 percent are rural and 56 percent are urban. 19 thousand people enrolled in the age group of 10 to 19 years, and in the group of 20 to 29 years old, 1863 thousand people; the average age of those enrolled in classes is less than 32 years."
The head of the Literacy Department said: "Registration of literacy activities has been extended to 15 days, and since today, trainers can sign up just through the Web and mobile phones."
Bagherzadeh pointed to the training of illiterate parents as a superior experience in UNESCO and added: "So far, about 36,000 people have been covered. Also, in the literacy education of vulnerable children, 14,527 people are enrolled and receive services."
The deputy minister of education said that education of about 10,000 disabled under the age of 17 was conducted in the years 2017 and 2018. Five thousand people have been covered in the education and empowerment plan for rural and nomadic girls. Learning centers developed this year, and 133 new centers were created in the year of 2018, whose function is to combine literacy with 33 life skills and occupational skills."
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