Literacy Rate 1975-2025

literacy rate for 2022 was 77.80%, a 0.54% increase from 2021.
  • literacy rate for 2021 was 77.26%, a 0.56% increase from 2020.
  • literacy rate for 2020 was 76.70%, a 0.54% increase from 2019.
  • literacy rate for 2019 was 76.16%, a 0.21% increase from 2018.
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.