Literacy rate, youth (% aged 15-24), female - Other - Education Statistics

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Youth literacy rate is the percentage of people ages 15-24 who can, with understanding, read and write a short, simple statement on their everyday life.

Rank	Country	Value
Literacy rate, youth (% aged 15-24), female - Other - Education Statistics (2007)
1	Azerbaijan	100
2	Cuba	99.98
3	Italy	99.89
4	Slovenia	99.89
5	Cyprus	99.89
6	Tajikistan	99.87
7	Kazakhstan	99.86
8	Turkmenistan	99.86
9	Estonia	99.84
10	Armenia	99.83
11	Belarus	99.83
12	Ukraine	99.82
13	Bahrain	99.80
14	Singapore	99.79
15	Lithuania	99.78
16	Latvia	99.76
17	Russia	99.76
18	High income: OECD	99.75
19	Kyrgyzstan	99.70
20	Portugal	99.69
21	Moldova	99.69
22	Croatia	99.66
23	Tonga	99.63
24	High income	99.59
25	Spain	99.56
26	Brunei Darussalam	99.55
27	Trinidad and Tobago	99.51
28	Western Samoa	99.48
29	Albania	99.46
30	New Caledonia	99.45
31	Aruba	99.39
32	Argentina	99.31
33	Greece	99.27
34	Chile	99.22
35	Poland	99.21
36	Bolivia	99.14
37	China	99.10
38	Lebanon	99.08
39	Uruguay	99.02
40	Qatar	98.97
41	West Bank and Gaza	98.92
42	Hungary	98.91
43	Venezuela	98.84
44	Paraguay	98.78
45	Cayman Islands	98.62
46	Europe & Central Asia (developing only)	98.58
47	Brazil	98.56
48	Macedonia	98.52
49	Kuwait	98.51
50	Costa Rica	98.46
51	Colombia	98.42
52	Malaysia	98.38
53	Maldives	98.37
54	Netherlands Antilles	98.26
55	Upper middle income	98.17
56	Mexico	98.12
57	Thailand	98.09
58	Libya	98
59	Cape Verde	97.94
60	Oman	97.89
61	Jamaica	97.88
62	East Asia & Pacific (developing only)	97.63
63	Romania	97.57
64	Bulgaria	97.45
65	Latin America & Caribbean (developing only)	97.42
66	Mongolia	97.27
67	Mauritius	97.21
68	Dominican Republic	97.04
69	Peru	96.71
70	South Africa	96.30
71	Panama	96.14
72	Gabon	95.94
73	Saudi Arabia	95.86
74	Ecuador	95.63
75	Sao Tome and Principe	95.48
76	Botswana	95.31
77	Philippines	95.29
78	Honduras	95.05
79	Suriname	94.63
80	Namibia	94.41
81	Tunisia	94.30
82	Turkey	94.29
83	El Salvador	93.89
84	Syria	91.95
85	Vanuatu	91.66
86	Middle income	90.66
87	Algeria	90.62
88	Lower middle income	88.92
89	Zimbabwe	88.33
90	Comoros	86.76
91	Middle East & North Africa (developing only)	85.77
92	Low & middle income	85.16
93	Nigeria	84.75
94	Uganda	84.25
95	Guatemala	82.93
96	Cambodia	82.72
97	Malawi	82.27
98	India	77.05
99	Tanzania	76.17
100	Ghana	75.81
101	Liberia	75.74
102	South Asia	73.60
103	Bangladesh	73.17
104	Nepal	73.01
105	Low income	69.36
106	Zambia	67.78
107	Sub-Saharan Africa (developing only)	67.42
108	Yemen	66.75
109	Morocco	66.51
110	Papua New Guinea	65.41
111	Mauritania	62.49
112	Mozambique	47.45
113	Sierra Leone	43.87
114	Benin	41.09
115	Chad	35.44
116	Burkina Faso	33.13

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