Youth literacy rate, ages 15-24 - Country rankings

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Youth literacy rate, ages 15-24, 2018 - Country rankings:

The average for 2018 based on 77 countries was 92.18 percent.The highest value was in San Marino: 100 percent and the lowest value was in the Central African Republic: 38.27 percent. The indicator is available from 1970 to 2018. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

Measure: percent; Source: UNESCO

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1. San Marino

2. Uzbekistan

3. Italy

4. Singapore

5. Kazakhstan

6. Belarus

7. Latvia

8. China

9. Kyrgyzstan

10. Lebanon

11. Spain

12. Brunei

13. Indonesia

14. Russia

15. Bahrain

16. Portugal

17. Argentina

18. Aruba

19. Tonga

20. Costa Rica

21. Romania

22. Jordan

23. Palestine

24. Albania

25. Mexico

26. Malta

27. Brazil

28. Greece

29. Samoa

30. Montenegro

31. Panama

32. Kuwait

33. Seychelles

34. Mauritius

35. Peru

36. Uruguay

37. Colombia

38. Sri Lanka

39. Suriname

40. Mongolia

41. Oman

42. Vietnam

43. Paraguay

44. Thailand

45. El Salvador

46. S.T.&Principe

47. Morocco

48. Algeria

49. Malaysia

50. Honduras

51. Vanuatu

52. Swaziland

53. Namibia

54. Bangladesh

55. Eritrea

56. Ghana

57. Nepal

58. Zambia

59. India

60. Gabon

61. Uganda

62. Kenya

63. Rwanda

64. Cameroon

65. R. of Congo

66. Madagascar

67. Comoros

68. Euro area

69. Nigeria

70. Sudan

71. Sierra Leone

72. Afghanistan

73. Benin

74. Ivory Coast

75. Burkina Faso

76. Mali

77. C.A. Republic

Definition: Youth literacy rate is the percentage of people ages 15-24 who can both read and write with understanding a short simple statement about their everyday life.

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