Education and society
Literacy rate %
The share of adults (15+) who can read and write a short, simple sentence about their everyday life. Countries with universal schooling often no longer measure it, so parts of Europe are blank on the map.
2014–2024: highest value – Uzbekistan (100.0%), lowest – Chad (30.6%); 122 countries with data. World (as reported by the source): 87.7%.
Source: World Bank
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