Literacy rate, youth male (% of males ages 15-24) - Millennium Development Goals Indicators

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Target 2.A: Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling

Rank	Country	Value
Literacy rate, youth male (% of males ages 15-24) - Millennium Development Goals Indicators (2008)
1	South Korea	100
2	North Korea	100
3	Cuba	100
4	Libya	99.90
5	Tajikistan	99.90
6	Italy	99.90
7	Lithuania	99.80
8	Georgia	99.80
9	Cyprus	99.80
10	Bahrain	99.80
11	Uzbekistan	99.80
12	Poland	99.80
13	Turkmenistan	99.80
14	Slovenia	99.80
15	Kazakhstan	99.80
16	Bosnia and Herzegovina	99.70
17	Ukraine	99.70
18	Armenia	99.70
19	Portugal	99.70
20	Belarus	99.70
21	Brunei Darussalam	99.70
22	Estonia	99.70
23	Latvia	99.70
24	Singapore	99.70
25	Russia	99.60
26	Croatia	99.60
27	High income: OECD	99.60
28	Spain	99.53
29	High income	99.51
30	Trinidad and Tobago	99.50
31	Kyrgyzstan	99.50
32	Greece	99.40
33	New Caledonia	99.40
34	Western Samoa	99.40
35	China	99.40
36	Europe & Central Asia (developing only)	99.35
37	Albania	99.30
38	Moldova	99.30
39	Serbia	99.30
40	West Bank and Gaza	99.27
41	Aruba	99.20
42	Chile	99.11
43	Argentina	99
44	Macedonia	98.90
45	Seychelles	98.77
46	Uruguay	98.63
47	High income: nonOECD	98.57
48	Mexico	98.41
49	Antigua and Barbuda	98.40
50	Gabon	98.40
51	Saudi Arabia	98.40
52	East Asia & Pacific (developing only)	98.32
53	Zimbabwe	98.30
54	Netherlands Antilles	98.30
55	Malaysia	98.30
56	Hungary	98.30
57	Tunisia	98.13
58	Upper middle income	97.94
59	Costa Rica	97.70
60	Oman	97.63
61	Equatorial Guinea	97.60
62	Colombia	97.55
63	Sri Lanka	97.33
64	Bulgaria	97.30
65	Cape Verde	97.20
66	Vietnam	97.20
67	Romania	97.10
68	Latin America & Caribbean (developing only)	96.66
69	Panama	96.60
70	South Africa	96.10
71	Burma	96
72	Suriname	95.70
73	Syria	95.60
74	El Salvador	95.41
75	Mauritius	95.40
76	Yemen	95.10
77	Sao Tome and Principe	94.70
78	Philippines	93.90
79	Botswana	93.80
80	Vanuatu	93.50
81	Middle income	93.40
82	Mongolia	93.30
83	Lower middle income	92.34
84	Middle East & North Africa (developing only)	92.33
85	Kenya	91.80
86	Swaziland	91.80
87	Jamaica	91.80
88	Namibia	91.10
89	Eritrea	91.10
90	Low & middle income	90.70
91	Cambodia	89.38
92	Uganda	89.10
93	Sudan	88.60
94	Guatemala	88.50
95	Cameroon	88.20
96	Togo	87
97	Malawi	86.50
98	Nepal	86.20
99	Puerto Rico	85.80
100	Comoros	85.70
101	Lesotho	85.60
102	South Asia	85.02
103	Morocco	84.80
104	Iraq	84.50
105	Zambia	82.10
106	Angola	80.80
107	Ghana	80.60
108	Tanzania	78.70
109	Low income	78.54
110	Pakistan	78.51
111	Nigeria	78.30
112	Mozambique	77.70
113	Guinea-Bissau	77.60
114	Rwanda	77.10
115	Sub-Saharan Africa (developing only)	76.81
116	Burundi	76.50
117	Bangladesh	73.30
118	Madagascar	72.65
119	Central African Republic	72.10
120	Ivory Coast	72
121	Mauritania	70.50
122	Liberia	70.10
123	Gambia	70.10
124	Democratic Republic of the Congo	68.80
125	Guinea	66.50
126	Sierra Leone	66
127	Papua New Guinea	64.60
128	Benin	64.10
129	Ethiopia	62.20
130	Chad	53.50

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