Malaysia Literacy Rate

Group Member
• Asuque Arianne
• Borja Charize
• Espinosa Gretchel
• Latonio Agilea
• Luchavez Lilit
• Suralta Razaele
 Introduction
• Malaysia is the combination of the word “Malay”
and latin word “sia”.
• Federation of Malaysia became an independent
country on 31 August 1957.
• On September 16,1963 federation was enlarged by
the accession of the state of Singapore, Sarawak and
Sabah. The name “Malaysia” is adopted from that
date.
• Malaysia consist of two geographical regions;
1.Peninsula Malaysia (West)
2.Borneo Malaysia (East)
• Further divided in to 11 States in West and 2 states in East.
• Largest City and National capital of the Malaysia is “Kuala
Lumpur”
• Malaysia is a multi-ethnic and multi-religion country in Southeast
Asia.
• Malaysia has newly industrialized market economy ranked 4th
largest in Southeast Asia and 35th largest in the world.
 Languages
• National and ofiicial Language in Malaysia is “Malay”
(Bahasa Malaysia)
• Secondary language is English.
• Chinese and Tamil also used too.
• 137 living languages in Malaysia.
• At the primary level schooling three major languages,
Malay, Mandarin and Tamil.
Malay Alphabet
Malaysia Education
• Overseen by Ministry of Education “Kementerian
Pelajaran”
• Minister of Education is Mahdzir Khalid.
• Total budget MVR 54.6 billions (US 17 billions)
• Education system is divided into 4 sectors.
• Multilingual public school provide free
education.
• Mail legislation governing education is
“Education Act 1996”
• Currently 37 private universities and 414 private
colleges in Malaysia.
• Riehard O. Winsledt established Sultan Idris
training college.
 Malaysia Education System
• Primary and Secondary Education make up 11 years of free
education.
• Students sit for common public examinations at the end of
primary, lower secondary and upper secondary levels.
• The admission age to the first of primary education is
seven.
• Primary schooling is mandatory to all children between the
ages of 7 and 12.
 Literacy
• Literacy is the ability to read and write.
• Literacy is the ability to identify, understand, interpret, create,
communicate and compute, using printed and written
materials associated with varying contexts. As defined by
Unesco.
• Alberta Education defines literacy as the ability, confidence
and willingness to engage with language to acquire, construct
and communicate meaning in all aspects of daily living.
 Literacy Rate
• Total number of literate persons in a given age
group, expressed as a percentage of the total
population in that age group.
• The adult literacy rate measures literacy among
persons aged 15 years and older.
• Youth literacy rate measures literacy among
persons aged 15 to 24 years. -UNICEF
 Illiteracy
• The inability to read or write, or the actual perceived state of being
uneducated or insufficiently educated.
• Formerly , the illiterate was used to describe someone without book
learning or a liberal EDUCATION (especially in classical LATIN
and GREEK), even though such a person could read in vernacular
language or handle accounts and correspondence.
• However, the word also carried the connotation of ‘unpolished,’
‘ignorant’, or ‘inferior’, as in ‘the disadvantage of an illiterate
education’ – encyclopedi.com
 Literacy rate fell down in Malaysia

• According to UNESCO, an adult literacy rate

of 94.85%.
• While the male literacy rate is 96.12%
• for females is 93.5%.
 Malaysia Literacy Rate (1980-2020)
• Adult literacy rate is the percentage of people ages 15 and above who can both
read and write with understanding a short simple statement about their everyday
life.
• Malaysia literacy rate for 2018 was 94.85%, a 0.23% decline from 2017.
• Malaysia literacy rate for 2017 was 95.08%, a 1.35% increase from 2016.
• Malaysia literacy rate for 2016 was 93.73%, a 0.62% increase from 2010.
• Malaysia literacy rate for 2010 was 93.12%, a 4.43% increase from 2000.
Literacy rate from 1980-2020
 Malaysian Population
• Total population is 30,331,007 out of which 96.2
Male and 93.2 Female
• Literacy rate is 94.64% giving it rank of 75th among
all countries
• Literacy and literate citizens play critical role in
transforming Malaysia in developing country status
by 2020
 References
• https://
www.macrotrends.net/countries/MYS/malaysia/litera
cy-rate
• https://wenr.wes.org/2014/12/education-in-malaysia
• www.slideshare.net>mobile>mala...malaysia-
slideshare
• https://countryeconomy.com/demography/literacy-
rate/malaysia