Thirty-one percent of young women and 14 percent of young men are illiterate. However, literacy is much higher among the youngest youth age 15 years (77% among women and 92% percent among men) than among youth only a decade older (63% among women and 84% among men). Despite improvements over time, educational attainment remains very low even among youth: only 29 percent of young women and 38 perce
nt of young men have completed 10 or more years of education. Urban-rural differentials are much wider for women than men in literacy and educational attainment and the gender gap is also much greater in rural than in urban areas. Female youth are more likely than male youth to belong to the lowest wealth quintile and less likely to be in the higher wealth quintiles
