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 91.77 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 2019. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.Measure: percent; Source: UNESCO
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* indicates monthly or quarterly data series
100.00
100.00
99.93
99.93
99.90
99.85
99.82
99.78
99.75
99.75
99.72
99.71
99.71
99.70
99.69
99.66
99.51
99.50
99.44
99.43
99.43
99.34
99.34
99.33
99.32
99.30
99.20
99.16
99.12
99.11
99.10
99.08
99.07
99.04
99.02
98.88
98.85
98.78
98.65
98.63
98.62
98.41
98.28
98.14
97.97
97.78
97.73
97.43
96.85
96.52
96.28
95.47
95.16
93.30
93.27
92.49
92.39
92.09
91.66
89.78
89.40
87.83
86.49
85.08
82.05
81.20
78.27
75.03
73.00
66.65
65.42
60.95
58.42
58.29
50.13
43.46
38.27
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25
50
75
100
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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