Adult Education
Sierra Leone has a low level of literacy among adults with only 37.1% of adults literate in 2006, the level of literacy is higher among 15- to 24-year-old who have a literacy rate of 52.2%. For both groups literacy among women is much lower than that for men. Attendance within the education system is also low among adults with men average 4 years of formal education and women 2 years.
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