World Literacy Rate

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Literacy Rate

World literacy rate for 2023 was 87.36%, a 0.2% increase from 2022.

World literacy rate for 2022 was 87.16%, a 0.23% increase from 2021.
World literacy rate for 2021 was 86.93%, a 0.18% increase from 2020.
World literacy rate for 2020 was 86.75%, a 0.2% increase from 2019.

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.