Literacy rate, youth (% aged 15-24), total - 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), total - Other - Education Statistics (2007)
1	Azerbaijan	100
2	Cuba	99.98
3	Italy	99.89
4	Tajikistan	99.86
5	Slovenia	99.85
6	Cyprus	99.85
7	Kazakhstan	99.82
8	Turkmenistan	99.82
9	Ukraine	99.79
10	Estonia	99.79
11	Belarus	99.78
12	Armenia	99.77
13	Bahrain	99.77
14	Lithuania	99.77
15	High income: OECD	99.75
16	Latvia	99.72
17	Singapore	99.72
18	Russia	99.70
19	Moldova	99.69
20	Portugal	99.66
21	Croatia	99.65
22	High income	99.62
23	Kyrgyzstan	99.60
24	Brunei Darussalam	99.59
25	Tonga	99.58
26	Spain	99.57
27	Trinidad and Tobago	99.51
28	Poland	99.47
29	Bolivia	99.44
30	Western Samoa	99.42
31	Albania	99.38
32	Greece	99.32
33	New Caledonia	99.32
34	Aruba	99.29
35	China	99.26
36	Argentina	99.11
37	Chile	99.06
38	Qatar	99.06
39	West Bank and Gaza	99.04
40	Europe & Central Asia (developing only)	98.94
41	Cayman Islands	98.91
42	Libya	98.88
43	Paraguay	98.79
44	Uruguay	98.76
45	Macedonia	98.72
46	Lebanon	98.71
47	Hungary	98.55
48	Kuwait	98.45
49	Venezuela	98.40
50	Oman	98.37
51	Malaysia	98.30
52	Netherlands Antilles	98.22
53	Thailand	98.18
54	Mexico	98.16
55	Maldives	98.07
56	Upper middle income	98.07
57	Costa Rica	98.01
58	Colombia	97.97
59	East Asia & Pacific (developing only)	97.87
60	Brazil	97.80
61	Bulgaria	97.48
62	Romania	97.42
63	Peru	97.36
64	Cape Verde	97.27
65	Latin America & Caribbean (developing only)	97.01
66	Saudi Arabia	96.99
67	Gabon	96.97
68	Turkey	96.36
69	Panama	96.32
70	Mauritius	96.25
71	Dominican Republic	95.99
72	Tunisia	95.68
73	Mongolia	95.44
74	South Africa	95.43
75	Ecuador	95.43
76	Sao Tome and Principe	95.23
77	Suriname	95.17
78	Philippines	94.41
79	Jamaica	94.34
80	Botswana	94.12
81	Honduras	93.92
82	Syria	93.69
83	El Salvador	93.56
84	Namibia	92.66
85	Algeria	92.45
86	Middle income	92.43
87	Vanuatu	91.73
88	Lower middle income	91.17
89	Zimbabwe	91.17
90	Comoros	89.45
91	Middle East & North Africa (developing only)	89.20
92	Low & middle income	87.74
93	Nigeria	86.68
94	Uganda	86.29
95	Cambodia	86.20
96	Guatemala	85.48
97	Malawi	82.99
98	India	82.09
99	Yemen	80.38
100	Nepal	79.31
101	South Asia	78.84
102	Ghana	77.78
103	Tanzania	77.55
104	Morocco	75.14
105	Zambia	75.09
106	Low income	74.02
107	Sub-Saharan Africa (developing only)	72.24
108	Bangladesh	72.13
109	Liberia	71.78
110	Mauritania	66.36
111	Papua New Guinea	64.06
112	Sierra Leone	54.12
113	Mozambique	52.94
114	Benin	52.42
115	Chad	44.44
116	Burkina Faso	39.26

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