Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 90%
male: 93%
female: 86% (1981 est.)
Macau Government
Country name: conventional long form: Macau Special Administrative
Region
conventional short form: Macau
local long form: Aomen Tebie Xingzhengqu (Chinese); Regiao Administrativa Especial de Macau (Portuguese)
local short form: Aomen (Chinese); Macau (Portuguese)
Dependency status: special administrative region of China