Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) - Gender 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 female (% of females ages 15 and above) - Gender Statistics (2009)
1	Cuba	99.82
2	Estonia	99.81
3	Latvia	99.79
4	Lithuania	99.71
5	Belarus	99.68
6	Georgia	99.67
7	Slovenia	99.66
8	Ukraine	99.61
9	Kazakhstan	99.57
10	Tajikistan	99.56
11	Russia	99.43
12	Turkmenistan	99.41
13	Armenia	99.39
14	Poland	99.36
15	Hungary	99.34
16	Uzbekistan	99.09
17	Kyrgyzstan	98.98
18	Uruguay	98.61
19	Italy	98.60
20	High income: OECD	98.59
21	Western Samoa	98.54
22	Trinidad and Tobago	98.33
23	High income	98.11
24	Croatia	98.11
25	Aruba	98.10
26	Bulgaria	97.99
27	Moldova	97.97
28	Mongolia	97.90
29	Argentina	97.74
30	Romania	97.02
31	Spain	96.93
32	Cyprus	96.87
33	Europe & Central Asia (developing only)	96.87
34	Netherlands Antilles	96.37
35	Bosnia and Herzegovina	96.37
36	Costa Rica	96.27
37	Greece	96.09
38	New Caledonia	95.98
39	Macedonia	95.63
40	Lesotho	95.29
41	Brunei Darussalam	93.67
42	Colombia	93.42
43	Portugal	93.25
44	Panama	92.98
45	Qatar	92.91
46	Mexico	92.12
47	Singapore	91.95
48	West Bank and Gaza	91.70
49	Jamaica	91.15
50	Puerto Rico	90.99
51	China	90.94
52	East Asia & Pacific (developing only)	90.69
53	Upper middle income	90.61
54	Vietnam	90.50
55	Latin America & Caribbean (developing only)	90.34
56	High income: nonOECD	90.32
57	Malaysia	90.29
58	Bahrain	90.16
59	Equatorial Guinea	89.76
60	Burma	89.51
61	Zimbabwe	89.36
62	Namibia	88.13
63	Swaziland	86.17
64	Turkey	85.35
65	Mauritius	85.27
66	Botswana	84.38
67	Gabon	84.08
68	Sao Tome and Principe	84.05
69	Kenya	83.54
70	Libya	82.02
71	El Salvador	81.82
72	Ecuador	81.45
73	Saudi Arabia	81.08
74	Vanuatu	80.31
75	Cape Verde	80.25
76	Syria	77.98
77	Middle income	77.81
78	Low & middle income	74.84
79	Lower middle income	73.90
80	Iraq	69.86
81	Guatemala	69.48
82	Comoros	68.65
83	Malawi	67.01
84	Tanzania	66.93
85	Rwanda	66.78
86	Middle East & North Africa (developing only)	66.31
87	Zambia	61.34
88	Burundi	60.92
89	Sudan	60.82
90	Ghana	60.36
91	Angola	57.61
92	Papua New Guinea	56.52
93	Eritrea	56.03
94	Democratic Republic of the Congo	54.90
95	Low income	54.65
96	Liberia	54.52
97	Sub-Saharan Africa (developing only)	53.60
98	Bangladesh	51.02
99	Mauritania	50.33
100	Nigeria	49.81
101	South Asia	49.68
102	Nepal	46.89
103	Ivory Coast	45.29
104	Yemen	44.68
105	Morocco	43.92
106	Central African Republic	42.10
107	Mozambique	41.47
108	Senegal	38.67
109	Guinea-Bissau	38.02
110	Gambia	35.81
111	Sierra Leone	30.10
112	Benin	29.06
113	Guinea	28.08
114	Chad	23.06

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