Literacy rate, adult female (% of females 15+) - Other - Education 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 15+) - Other - Education Statistics (2007)
1	Estonia	99.81
2	Latvia	99.79
3	Cuba	99.78
4	Lithuania	99.70
5	Belarus	99.65
6	Slovenia	99.65
7	Ukraine	99.61
8	Tajikistan	99.51
9	Kazakhstan	99.48
10	Russia	99.37
11	High income: OECD	99.34
12	Turkmenistan	99.33
13	Armenia	99.32
14	Tonga	99.28
15	Azerbaijan	99.22
16	Kyrgyzstan	99.10
17	Poland	99.02
18	Cayman Islands	99.02
19	Moldova	98.89
20	Hungary	98.82
21	High income	98.81
22	Albania	98.77
23	Italy	98.64
24	Western Samoa	98.44
25	Trinidad and Tobago	98.31
26	Uruguay	98.24
27	Aruba	98.10
28	Croatia	98.04
29	Bulgaria	97.93
30	Mongolia	97.72
31	Argentina	97.68
32	Spain	97.26
33	Maldives	97.12
34	Romania	96.92
35	Cyprus	96.57
36	Chile	96.50
37	Netherlands Antilles	96.35
38	Europe & Central Asia (developing only)	96.34
39	Costa Rica	96.17
40	Greece	95.99
41	Macedonia	95.41
42	New Caledonia	95.25
43	Venezuela	94.93
44	Philippines	93.68
45	Paraguay	93.45
46	Portugal	93.32
47	Upper middle income	93.19
48	Brunei Darussalam	93.13
49	Kuwait	93.12
50	Colombia	92.85
51	Panama	92.77
52	Thailand	92.56
53	Singapore	91.58
54	Mexico	91.36
55	Jamaica	91.09
56	Qatar	90.44
57	West Bank and Gaza	90.33
58	Latin America & Caribbean (developing only)	90.32
59	Brazil	90.23
60	China	90
61	East Asia & Pacific (developing only)	89.67
62	Malaysia	89.56
63	Dominican Republic	89.51
64	Zimbabwe	88.33
65	Suriname	88.10
66	Namibia	87.37
67	South Africa	87.16
68	Bahrain	86.43
69	Bolivia	85.99
70	Lebanon	85.97
71	Mauritius	84.70
72	Peru	84.65
73	Honduras	83.45
74	Botswana	82.91
75	Sao Tome and Principe	82.68
76	Gabon	82.18
77	Ecuador	81.68
78	Turkey	81.26
79	Middle income	80.08
80	El Salvador	79.66
81	Saudi Arabia	79.41
82	Cape Verde	78.85
83	Libya	78.44
84	Oman	77.50
85	Lower middle income	76.71
86	Syria	76.48
87	Vanuatu	76.10
88	Low & middle income	75.11
89	Comoros	69.83
90	Tunisia	69.04
91	Guatemala	68.02
92	Cambodia	67.72
93	Algeria	66.43
94	Tanzania	65.86
95	Uganda	65.51
96	Malawi	64.62
97	Middle East & North Africa (developing only)	64.54
98	Nigeria	64.10
99	Zambia	60.75
100	Ghana	58.26
101	Low income	55.32
102	India	54.48
103	Sub-Saharan Africa (developing only)	53.82
104	Papua New Guinea	53.36
105	South Asia	52.13
106	Liberia	50.89
107	Mauritania	48.28
108	Bangladesh	48.05
109	Nepal	43.56
110	Morocco	43.22
111	Yemen	40.47
112	Mozambique	32.95
113	Benin	27.93
114	Sierra Leone	26.77
115	Burkina Faso	21.58
116	Chad	20.84

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Literacy rate, adult female (% of females 15+) - Other - Education Statistics

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