Literacy rate, adult male (% of males 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 male (% of males 15+) - Other - Education Statistics (2007)
1	Cuba	99.81
2	Azerbaijan	99.80
3	Belarus	99.79
4	Ukraine	99.79
5	Kazakhstan	99.78
6	Estonia	99.77
7	Latvia	99.77
8	Tajikistan	99.77
9	Slovenia	99.71
10	Russia	99.70
11	Turkmenistan	99.69
12	Armenia	99.68
13	Lithuania	99.66
14	Moldova	99.63
15	Poland	99.62
16	High income: OECD	99.55
17	Kyrgyzstan	99.51
18	Croatia	99.46
19	Albania	99.33
20	Tonga	99.17
21	High income	99.16
22	Italy	99.12
23	Trinidad and Tobago	99.09
24	Hungary	98.98
25	Cyprus	98.97
26	Western Samoa	98.95
27	Europe & Central Asia (developing only)	98.93
28	Cayman Islands	98.72
29	Bulgaria	98.64
30	Spain	98.63
31	Macedonia	98.60
32	Romania	98.33
33	Greece	98.22
34	Aruba	98.19
35	Argentina	97.61
36	Uruguay	97.42
37	Singapore	97.29
38	West Bank and Gaza	97.19
39	Maldives	96.98
40	Mongolia	96.82
41	Chile	96.59
42	Portugal	96.58
43	Brunei Darussalam	96.47
44	China	96.46
45	Netherlands Antilles	96.34
46	New Caledonia	96.31
47	Turkey	96.20
48	Bolivia	96.04
49	Thailand	95.88
50	East Asia & Pacific (developing only)	95.80
51	Costa Rica	95.73
52	Paraguay	95.71
53	Venezuela	95.38
54	Kuwait	95.15
55	Upper middle income	95.10
56	Peru	94.86
57	Libya	94.45
58	Mexico	94.44
59	Malaysia	94.19
60	Zimbabwe	94.07
61	Panama	94.02
62	Qatar	93.81
63	Sao Tome and Principe	93.43
64	Lebanon	93.38
65	Philippines	93.12
66	Suriname	92.73
67	Colombia	92.43
68	Latin America & Caribbean (developing only)	91.68
69	Bahrain	90.36
70	Mauritius	90.20
71	Gabon	90.19
72	Brazil	89.77
73	Syria	89.71
74	Middle income	89.67
75	Cape Verde	89.38
76	Oman	89.36
77	Saudi Arabia	89.06
78	South Africa	88.88
79	Dominican Republic	88.78
80	Namibia	88.58
81	Lower middle income	88.41
82	Ecuador	87.26
83	Tunisia	86.38
84	Low & middle income	86.13
85	Cambodia	85.82
86	El Salvador	84.86
87	Algeria	84.27
88	Honduras	83.75
89	Botswana	82.79
90	Uganda	81.79
91	Middle East & North Africa (developing only)	81.78
92	Zambia	80.75
93	Jamaica	80.54
94	Comoros	80.34
95	Nigeria	80.08
96	Vanuatu	80.04
97	Malawi	79.23
98	Tanzania	78.96
99	Guatemala	78.96
100	Yemen	77.04
101	India	76.88
102	South Asia	73.81
103	Low income	71.86
104	Ghana	71.69
105	Sub-Saharan Africa (developing only)	71.12
106	Nepal	70.28
107	Morocco	68.72
108	Mauritania	63.30
109	Papua New Guinea	62.14
110	Liberia	60.24
111	Bangladesh	58.67
112	Mozambique	57.15
113	Benin	53.12
114	Sierra Leone	50
115	Chad	43.04
116	Burkina Faso	36.68

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