Editing Literacy (section)

====Mali====
{{main|Education in Mali}}
In [[Mali]] in 2015, the adult literacy rate was 33%, one of the lowest in the world, with males having a 43.1% literacy rate and females having a 24.6% rate.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Education Statistics |url=http://datatopics.worldbank.org/education/country/mali |access-date=2019-11-19 |website=datatopics.worldbank.org}}</ref> The government defines literacy as anyone at least 15 who can read or write.<ref name="National-Population-and-Housing-Census-2014" /> In recent years, the government of Mali and international organizations have taken steps to improve the literacy rate. The government recognized the slow progress and began creating ministries for basic education and literacy in their national languages in 2007; they also increased the education budget by 3%, when it was at 35% in 2007. The lack of literate adults causes the programs to be slowed—they need qualified female instructors, which is problematic as many men refuse to send female family members to be trained by male teachers.<ref>{{Cite news |date=17 April 2008 |title=Mali: Still a long way to go to meet adult literacy targets |work=IRIN |url=http://www.irinnews.org/report/77803/mali-still-a-long-way-to-go-to-meet--liteadultracy-targets |access-date=3 October 2014 |ref=IRIN}}</ref>