Literacy rate, youth (% aged 15-24), male - Other - Education Statistics

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

Rank	Country	Value
Literacy rate, youth (% aged 15-24), male - Other - Education Statistics (2007)
1	Azerbaijan	100
2	Cuba	99.98
3	Italy	99.88
4	Tajikistan	99.85
5	Cyprus	99.82
6	Slovenia	99.81
7	Turkmenistan	99.79
8	Kazakhstan	99.79
9	Lithuania	99.76
10	High income: OECD	99.76
11	Bahrain	99.75
12	Bolivia	99.75
13	Ukraine	99.75
14	Estonia	99.74
15	Belarus	99.73
16	Poland	99.72
17	Libya	99.72
18	Armenia	99.71
19	Moldova	99.69
20	Latvia	99.68
21	Singapore	99.66
22	High income	99.65
23	Russia	99.64
24	Croatia	99.64
25	Portugal	99.63
26	Brunei Darussalam	99.63
27	Spain	99.58
28	Tonga	99.53
29	Trinidad and Tobago	99.50
30	Kyrgyzstan	99.50
31	China	99.40
32	Western Samoa	99.36
33	Greece	99.36
34	Europe & Central Asia (developing only)	99.33
35	Albania	99.31
36	Aruba	99.19
37	New Caledonia	99.19
38	West Bank and Gaza	99.15
39	Cayman Islands	99.14
40	Qatar	99.10
41	Argentina	98.93
42	Chile	98.91
43	Macedonia	98.90
44	Oman	98.82
45	Paraguay	98.81
46	Turkey	98.58
47	Uruguay	98.49
48	Lebanon	98.40
49	Kuwait	98.40
50	Thailand	98.26
51	Malaysia	98.22
52	Hungary	98.20
53	Mexico	98.20
54	Netherlands Antilles	98.18
55	East Asia & Pacific (developing only)	98.09
56	Saudi Arabia	98.09
57	Peru	98.01
58	Upper middle income	98
59	Gabon	97.98
60	Venezuela	97.97
61	Maldives	97.78
62	Costa Rica	97.59
63	Bulgaria	97.51
64	Colombia	97.48
65	Romania	97.27
66	Brazil	97.06
67	Tunisia	97
68	Cape Verde	96.61
69	Latin America & Caribbean (developing only)	96.58
70	Panama	96.50
71	Suriname	95.70
72	Syria	95.36
73	Mauritius	95.30
74	Ecuador	95.22
75	Sao Tome and Principe	94.98
76	Dominican Republic	94.95
77	South Africa	94.56
78	Algeria	94.21
79	Middle income	94.14
80	Zimbabwe	94.07
81	Mongolia	93.65
82	Philippines	93.57
83	Yemen	93.41
84	Lower middle income	93.30
85	El Salvador	93.22
86	Botswana	92.94
87	Honduras	92.70
88	Middle East & North Africa (developing only)	92.51
89	Comoros	92.10
90	Vanuatu	91.80
91	Namibia	90.92
92	Jamaica	90.87
93	Low & middle income	90.26
94	Cambodia	89.60
95	Nigeria	88.60
96	Uganda	88.32
97	Guatemala	88.12
98	India	86.71
99	Nepal	85.29
100	Morocco	83.85
101	Malawi	83.69
102	South Asia	83.69
103	Zambia	82.36
104	Ghana	79.68
105	Tanzania	78.93
106	Low income	78.68
107	Sub-Saharan Africa (developing only)	77.38
108	Bangladesh	71.14
109	Mauritania	70.01
110	Liberia	67.87
111	Sierra Leone	64.44
112	Benin	63.36
113	Papua New Guinea	62.77
114	Mozambique	58.43
115	Chad	53.41
116	Burkina Faso	46.73

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