Guam (U.S.)

Marshall Is.

Palau

Papua New Guinea

Samoa

Australia & Oceania

Aruba (Neth.)

Cuba

Dominican Republic

Haiti

Jamaica

Seychelles

Trinidad and Tobago

Caribbean

Afghanistan

Kazakhstan

Kyrgyzstan

Tajikistan

Turkmenistan

Uzbekistan

Central Asia

China

Macau S.A.R. (China)

Mongolia

Nepal

North Korea

East Asia

Armenia

Azerbaijan

Georgia

Russia

Eurasia

Albania

Belarus

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bulgaria

Croatia

Cyprus

Estonia

Greece

Hungary

Italy

Latvia

Lithuania

Malta

Moldova

Montenegro

Northern Macedonia

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Serbia

Slovenia

Spain

Ukraine

Europe

Argentina

Belize

Bolivia

Brazil

Chile

Colombia

Costa Rica

Ecuador

El Salvador

Guatemala

Guyana

Honduras

Nicaragua

Panama

Paraguay

Peru

Suriname

Uruguay

Venezuela

Latin America

Mauritania

Mauritius

New Caledonia (France)

Puerto Rico (U.S.)

São Tomé and Príncipe

Tonga

Vanuatu

None

Mexico

North America

Bangladesh

Bhutan

India

Maldives

Pakistan

Sri Lanka

South Asia

Brunei

Cambodia

Indonesia

Laos

Malaysia

Myanmar

Philippines

Singapore

Thailand

Timor-Leste

Vietnam

Southeast Asia

Algeria

Bahrain

Egypt

Iran

Iraq

Jordan

Kuwait

Lebanon

Libya

Morocco

Oman

Palestine

Qatar

Saudi Arabia

Syria

Tunisia

Turkey

United Arab Emirates

Yemen

Southwest Asia and North Africa

Angola

Benin

Botswana

Burkina Faso

Burundi

Cabo Verde

Cameroon

Central African Republic

Chad

Comoros

Côte d'Ivoire

Democratic Republic of Congo

Equatorial Guinea

Eritrea

eSwatini

Ethiopia

Gabon

Gambia

Ghana

Guinea

Guinea-Bissau

Kenya

Lesotho

Liberia

Madagascar

Malawi

Mali

Mozambique

Namibia

Niger

Nigeria

Republic of the Congo

Rwanda

Senegal

Sierra Leone

South Africa

South Sudan

Sudan

Tanzania

Togo

Uganda

Zambia

Zimbabwe

Sub-Saharan Africa

A map highlighting adult female literacy rates by country. Dark blue indicates more than 97 percent such as in Russia and Argentina. Medium blue such as Brazil. Light blue such as Libya. Very light blue such as several African countries and India.

The percentage of women ages 15 and older who can both read and write with understanding a short simple statement about their everyday life

Countries

World

World Bank

Adult Female Literacy Rate

Percent

Anguilla (U.K.)

Antigua and Barbuda

Bahamas

Barbados

Bermuda (U.K.)

British Virgin Is. (U.K.)

Cayman Is. (U.K.)

Dominica

Grenada

St. Kitts and Nevis

St. Lucia

St. Vincent and the Grenadines

Turks and Caicos Is. (U.K.)

Montserrat (U.K.)

A world map highlights the Caribbean Community members in yellow such as Suriname, and Guyana in South America, and Islands in the Caribbean Sea such as St. Vincent and Trinidad and Tobago. Countries like Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela are not members.

Member states of the Caribbean Community, an organization founded in 1973 to promote economic integration and cooperation among its members

CARICOM

Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Members

The 2012 presidential election in the United States pitted incumbent President and Democrat Barack Obama against Republican Mitt Romney. This layer portrays the popular vote results at the county and county-equivalent level. The map portrays the winner of the popular vote while data probing, placing the mouse over a county, displays the percentage of the vote for each candidate and the total number of votes cast. In the 2012 election, Mr. Obama won most of the counties containing major urban centers. He also won much of California, coastal Washington and Oregon, northern New Mexico, Central Colorado, much of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and northern Illinois. He also won southern Texas, the counties along the southern Mississippi River, a zone extending from central Mississippi through central Alabama, South Carolina and eastern North Carolina. He also won most of the counties on the eastern seaboard from Washington and Baltimore northeast through New England. Mr. Romney won most of the interior of the country outside of those areas previously mentioned as being won by Mr. Obama. Mr. Romney won the Alaskan municipalities while Mr. Obama won the counties of Hawaii.

Percentage of the popular vote by county that went to Mitt Romney versus Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential election

Adult Female Literacy Rate			Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Members	Countries	Cellular Phones
Class	Rank	Percent	Value	U.S. Presidential Election: Popular Vote by County, 2012	Class	Rank	Subscriptions per 1,000 people