Literacy rate, adult male (% of males ages 15 and above) - Outcomes - Education - World Development Indicators

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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 male (% of males ages 15 and above) - Outcomes - Education - World Development Indicators (2008)
1	Estonia	99.80
2	Latvia	99.80
3	Georgia	99.80
4	Belarus	99.80
5	Kazakhstan	99.80
6	Ukraine	99.80
7	Tajikistan	99.80
8	Cuba	99.80
9	Slovenia	99.70
10	Poland	99.70
11	Armenia	99.70
12	Lithuania	99.70
13	Turkmenistan	99.70
14	Russia	99.70
15	Kyrgyzstan	99.50
16	Croatia	99.50
17	Uzbekistan	99.50
18	Bosnia and Herzegovina	99.40
19	Albania	99.30
20	Italy	99.10
21	Hungary	99.10
22	Trinidad and Tobago	99.10
23	Europe & Central Asia	99.02
24	Moldova	99
25	Samoa	99
26	Cyprus	99
27	Chile	98.60
28	Bulgaria	98.60
29	Macedonia	98.60
30	Spain	98.40
31	Romania	98.30
32	Aruba	98.20
33	Greece	98.20
34	Uruguay	97.83
35	Argentina	97.60
36	Singapore	97.40
37	West Bank and Gaza	97.14
38	Equatorial Guinea	96.90
39	New Caledonia	96.80
40	China	96.70
41	Mongolia	96.70
42	Brunei Darussalam	96.60
43	Portugal	96.50
44	Netherlands Antilles	96.30
45	East Asia & Pacific	96.02
46	Costa Rica	95.70
47	Vietnam	95.10
48	Libya	94.90
49	Burma	94.70
50	Mexico	94.59
51	Upper middle income	94.53
52	Zimbabwe	94.40
53	Malaysia	94.30
54	Panama	94.10
55	Sao Tome and Principe	93.50
56	Colombia	93.32
57	Philippines	93.30
58	Suriname	93
59	Latin America & Caribbean	92.38
60	Sri Lanka	92.24
61	Bahrain	91.70
62	Gabon	90.90
63	Mauritius	90.40
64	Kenya	90.30
65	Oman	90.03
66	Syria	90
67	South Africa	89.90
68	Puerto Rico	89.70
69	Cape Verde	89.60
70	Saudi Arabia	89.50
71	Namibia	88.70
72	Middle income	88.17
73	Swaziland	87.40
74	El Salvador	87.05
75	Low & middle income	86.61
76	Lower middle income	86.56
77	Tunisia	86.40
78	Cambodia	86.10
79	Iraq	86
80	Cameroon	84
81	Botswana	83.10
82	Vanuatu	83
83	Angola	82.80
84	Lesotho	82.60
85	Uganda	82.40
86	Middle East & North Africa	81.75
87	Zambia	80.60
88	Jamaica	80.60
89	Malawi	80.20
90	Guatemala	79.50
91	Comoros	79.30
92	Sudan	79
93	Tanzania	79
94	Yemen	78.90
95	Democratic Republic of the Congo	77.50
96	Eritrea	77
97	Togo	76.60
98	Low income	75.76
99	Rwanda	74.80
100	Sub-Saharan Africa	74.34
101	South Asia	72.93
102	Burundi	72.30
103	Ghana	72.30
104	Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC)	71.72
105	Nigeria	71.50
106	Nepal	71.10
107	Least developed countries: UN classification	70.53
108	Mozambique	69.50
109	Morocco	69.40
110	Central African Republic	68.80
111	Pakistan	66.84
112	Guinea-Bissau	66.10
113	Ivory Coast	64.20
114	Mauritania	64.10
115	Papua New Guinea	63.60
116	Liberia	63.30
117	Bangladesh	60
118	Gambia	56.70
119	Benin	53.50
120	Sierra Leone	51.70
121	Chad	43.80

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