Literacy rate, adult total (% of people 15+) - Other - Education Statistics

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Adult literacy rate is the percentage of people ages 15 and above who can, with understanding, read and write a short, simple statement on their everyday life.

Rank	Country	Value
Literacy rate, adult total (% of people 15+) - Other - Education Statistics (2007)
1	Estonia	99.79
2	Cuba	99.79
3	Latvia	99.78
4	Belarus	99.71
5	Ukraine	99.69
6	Lithuania	99.68
7	Slovenia	99.68
8	Tajikistan	99.64
9	Kazakhstan	99.62
10	Russia	99.52
11	Turkmenistan	99.51
12	Azerbaijan	99.50
13	Armenia	99.48
14	High income: OECD	99.44
15	Poland	99.31
16	Kyrgyzstan	99.30
17	Moldova	99.24
18	Tonga	99.22
19	Albania	99.04
20	High income	98.98
21	Hungary	98.89
22	Cayman Islands	98.87
23	Italy	98.87
24	Croatia	98.72
25	Western Samoa	98.70
26	Trinidad and Tobago	98.69
27	Bulgaria	98.28
28	Aruba	98.14
29	Spain	97.94
30	Uruguay	97.86
31	Cyprus	97.72
32	Argentina	97.64
33	Romania	97.60
34	Europe & Central Asia (developing only)	97.54
35	Mongolia	97.28
36	Greece	97.08
37	Maldives	97.05
38	Macedonia	96.99
39	Chile	96.54
40	Netherlands Antilles	96.35
41	Costa Rica	95.95
42	New Caledonia	95.78
43	Venezuela	95.15
44	Portugal	94.88
45	Brunei Darussalam	94.85
46	Paraguay	94.56
47	Kuwait	94.46
48	Singapore	94.43
49	Thailand	94.15
50	Upper middle income	94.10
51	West Bank and Gaza	93.81
52	Philippines	93.40
53	Panama	93.39
54	China	93.31
55	Qatar	93.08
56	Mexico	92.80
57	East Asia & Pacific (developing only)	92.77
58	Colombia	92.65
59	Malaysia	91.90
60	Zimbabwe	91.17
61	Latin America & Caribbean (developing only)	90.96
62	Bolivia	90.74
63	Suriname	90.38
64	Brazil	90.01
65	Lebanon	89.61
66	Peru	89.59
67	Dominican Republic	89.14
68	Bahrain	88.76
69	Turkey	88.66
70	South Africa	88
71	Namibia	87.96
72	Sao Tome and Principe	87.93
73	Mauritius	87.41
74	Libya	86.78
75	Gabon	86.17
76	Jamaica	85.97
77	Saudi Arabia	84.95
78	Middle income	84.89
79	Oman	84.37
80	Ecuador	84.19
81	Cape Verde	83.78
82	Honduras	83.59
83	Syria	83.12
84	Botswana	82.85
85	Lower middle income	82.64
86	El Salvador	82.03
87	Low & middle income	80.61
88	Vanuatu	78.09
89	Tunisia	77.70
90	Cambodia	76.32
91	Algeria	75.39
92	Comoros	75.06
93	Uganda	73.60
94	Middle East & North Africa (developing only)	73.21
95	Guatemala	73.20
96	Tanzania	72.31
97	Nigeria	72.01
98	Malawi	71.79
99	Zambia	70.64
100	India	66.02
101	Ghana	65.03
102	Low income	63.50
103	South Asia	63.27
104	Sub-Saharan Africa (developing only)	62.19
105	Yemen	58.86
106	Papua New Guinea	57.77
107	Nepal	56.50
108	Mauritania	55.80
109	Morocco	55.58
110	Liberia	55.55
111	Bangladesh	53.48
112	Mozambique	44.38
113	Benin	40.54
114	Sierra Leone	38.09
115	Chad	31.76
116	Burkina Faso	28.73

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