{"id":199663,"date":"2025-06-06T13:05:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T11:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-sees-gains-in-education-but-gaps-remain-zdhs-report\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T13:05:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T11:05:06","slug":"zimbabwe-sees-gains-in-education-but-gaps-remain-zdhs-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-sees-gains-in-education-but-gaps-remain-zdhs-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe Sees Gains in Education, but Gaps Remain &#8211; ZDHS Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The country has recorded steady progress in education over the past decade, with the majority of adults now having attained secondary-level education or higher, according to the latest Zimbabwe Demographic and Health Survey (ZDHS) for 2023-24.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The survey, conducted by the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZIMSTAT), reveals that 79% of women and 80% of men aged 15 and above have attended secondary school or beyond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Literacy levels remain high, with 94% of women and 93% of men able to read and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506060170.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The country has recorded steady progress in education over the past decade, with the majority of adults now having attained secondary-level education or higher, according to the latest Zimbabwe Demographic and Health Survey (ZDHS) for 2023-24. The survey, conducted by the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZIMSTAT), reveals that 79% of women and 80% of men [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,1632,7219,10441,257,5153,5144,10159,254,51555,4686,421],"class_list":["post-199663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-education","tag-gains","tag-gaps","tag-news","tag-remain","tag-report","tag-sees","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zdhs","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}