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Adult literacy rate

Name: Adult literacy rate
Creator: World Bank World Development Indicators
Keywords: trending-statistics-research, daily-10, adult-literacy

Compare adult literacy rate across 33 ISO-mapped countries or territories using one fixed 2023 official-source slice.

Source: World Bank World Development Indicators•33 countries

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Key Insights

Global Average

88.4% of people ages 15+

Median: 94.3% of people ages 15+

Countries Covered

33

with available data

Highest

Armenia

99.8% of people ages 15+

Lowest

Burkina Faso

41.6% of people ages 15+

Top 5 Countries

1Armenia99.8% of people ages 15+

2Azerbaijan99.8% of people ages 15+

3Georgia99.6% of people ages 15+

4Tonga99.5% of people ages 15+

5Uruguay98.8% of people ages 15+

By Region

Key Findings

•33 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite 2023 observation.
•Armenia has the highest published value (99.8399963378906 % of people ages 15+).
•Burkina Faso has the lowest published value (41.5670909952631 % of people ages 15+).

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (41.6% of people ages 15+)High (99.8% of people ages 15+)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 88.4% of people ages 15+)

About This Statistic

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.

MapTheory retains one fixed year, unit and explicit source slice. Only finite ISO-mapped observations are included; aggregates, missing values, non-ISO geographies and conflicting duplicates are excluded. No values are estimated or imputed by MapTheory.

Methodology

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.

Full Data

Rank ↑	Country ↕	Value ↕
1	Armenia	99.8% of people ages 15+
2	Azerbaijan	99.8% of people ages 15+
3	Georgia	99.6% of people ages 15+
4	Tonga	99.5% of people ages 15+
5	Uruguay	98.8% of people ages 15+
6	Mongolia	98.6% of people ages 15+
7	United Arab Emirates	98.1% of people ages 15+
8	Bahrain	97.8% of people ages 15+
9	Albania	97.7% of people ages 15+
10	Nauru	96.6% of people ages 15+
11	Panama	96.1% of people ages 15+
12	Mexico	95.8% of people ages 15+
13	Bolivia	95.6% of people ages 15+
14	Colombia	95.5% of people ages 15+
15	Jordan	94.8% of people ages 15+
16	Brazil	94.6% of people ages 15+
17	Dominican Republic	94.3% of people ages 15+
18	Mauritius	94.3% of people ages 15+
19	Sri Lanka	92.7% of people ages 15+
20	El Salvador	89.8% of people ages 15+
21	Islamic Republic of Iran	88.9% of people ages 15+
22	Vanuatu	88.0% of people ages 15+
23	Namibia	87.6% of people ages 15+
24	Honduras	87.1% of people ages 15+
25	Tunisia	86.3% of people ages 15+
26	Guatemala	83.0% of people ages 15+
27	India	81.7% of people ages 15+
28	Uganda	80.5% of people ages 15+
29	Lao People's Democratic Republic	75.6% of people ages 15+
30	Democratic Republic of the Congo	68.5% of people ages 15+
31	Angola	68.2% of people ages 15+
32	Senegal	50.4% of people ages 15+
33	Burkina Faso	41.6% of people ages 15+

Showing 33 of 33 countries

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Data Source

This data comes from World Bank World Development Indicators (2023).

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