Literacy rate, youth female (% of females 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 female (% of females ages 15-24) - Millennium Development Goals Indicators (2008)
1	South Korea	100
2	North Korea	100
3	Cuba	100
4	Cyprus	99.90
5	Kazakhstan	99.90
6	Slovenia	99.90
7	Tajikistan	99.90
8	Poland	99.90
9	Turkmenistan	99.90
10	Georgia	99.90
11	Italy	99.90
12	Ukraine	99.80
13	Armenia	99.80
14	Belarus	99.80
15	Lithuania	99.80
16	Estonia	99.80
17	Singapore	99.80
18	Russia	99.80
19	Libya	99.70
20	New Caledonia	99.70
21	Bahrain	99.70
22	Latvia	99.70
23	Uzbekistan	99.70
24	Moldova	99.70
25	Croatia	99.70
26	Kyrgyzstan	99.70
27	Portugal	99.70
28	High income: OECD	99.65
29	Brunei Darussalam	99.60
30	Spain	99.60
31	Western Samoa	99.50
32	Trinidad and Tobago	99.50
33	Albania	99.50
34	High income	99.50
35	Antigua and Barbuda	99.42
36	Aruba	99.40
37	Zimbabwe	99.40
38	Seychelles	99.37
39	Uruguay	99.32
40	Greece	99.30
41	Argentina	99.30
42	Serbia	99.30
43	China	99.20
44	Chile	99.20
45	West Bank and Gaza	99.03
46	Hungary	99
47	Cape Verde	98.90
48	Bosnia and Herzegovina	98.70
49	Europe & Central Asia (developing only)	98.67
50	Costa Rica	98.60
51	Sri Lanka	98.59
52	Macedonia	98.50
53	Malaysia	98.50
54	Colombia	98.43
55	Netherlands Antilles	98.40
56	Mexico	98.36
57	Jamaica	98.20
58	Equatorial Guinea	98.10
59	East Asia & Pacific (developing only)	98
60	Lesotho	98
61	Upper middle income	97.91
62	High income: nonOECD	97.88
63	Oman	97.63
64	Romania	97.50
65	South Africa	97.50
66	Mauritius	97.40
67	Bulgaria	97.30
68	Latin America & Caribbean (developing only)	97.23
69	Mongolia	97.20
70	El Salvador	96.48
71	Gabon	96.40
72	Botswana	96.30
73	Vietnam	96.30
74	Saudi Arabia	96.20
75	Panama	96.20
76	Tunisia	95.79
77	Philippines	95.70
78	Sao Tome and Principe	95.60
79	Burma	95.10
80	Namibia	94.80
81	Suriname	94.80
82	Swaziland	94.70
83	Vanuatu	93.70
84	Kenya	92.90
85	Syria	92.50
86	Middle income	87.90
87	Middle East & North Africa (developing only)	86.14
88	Cambodia	85.53
89	Uganda	85.50
90	Lower middle income	85.43
91	Puerto Rico	85.10
92	Malawi	85
93	Low & middle income	84.80
94	Eritrea	84.40
95	Comoros	84.10
96	Guatemala	83.60
97	Cameroon	83.50
98	Sudan	81.70
99	Iraq	80.20
100	Togo	80
101	Liberia	79.50
102	Ghana	77.90
103	Rwanda	77.10
104	Tanzania	76.30
105	Bangladesh	75.50
106	Burundi	75.30
107	Nepal	75
108	South Asia	71.88
109	Low income	71.47
110	Yemen	70
111	Papua New Guinea	68.50
112	Morocco	68.40
113	Madagascar	68.19
114	Zambia	67.50
115	Sub-Saharan Africa (developing only)	67.02
116	Angola	65.20
117	Nigeria	64.60
118	Mauritania	63.40
119	Mozambique	62.10
120	Democratic Republic of the Congo	61.80
121	Guinea-Bissau	61.60
122	Ivory Coast	60.10
123	Pakistan	58.77
124	Gambia	58.10
125	Central African Republic	56.40
126	Guinea	50.60
127	Sierra Leone	45.90
128	Benin	42.10
129	Ethiopia	38.50
130	Chad	37.20

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