Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) - Millennium Development Goals Indicators

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Rank	Country	Value
Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) - Millennium Development Goals Indicators (2008)
1	South Korea	100
2	North Korea	100
3	Estonia	99.80
4	Latvia	99.80
5	Cuba	99.80
6	Lithuania	99.70
7	Slovenia	99.70
8	Belarus	99.70
9	Tajikistan	99.70
10	Kazakhstan	99.70
11	Georgia	99.70
12	Ukraine	99.70
13	Armenia	99.50
14	Poland	99.50
15	Russia	99.50
16	Turkmenistan	99.50
17	Kyrgyzstan	99.30
18	Uzbekistan	99.20
19	Albania	99
20	Hungary	99
21	Antigua and Barbuda	98.95
22	High income: OECD	98.80
23	Italy	98.80
24	Western Samoa	98.70
25	Croatia	98.70
26	Trinidad and Tobago	98.70
27	Chile	98.65
28	High income	98.39
29	Bulgaria	98.30
30	Moldova	98.30
31	Uruguay	98.16
32	Aruba	98.10
33	Cyprus	97.80
34	Europe & Central Asia (developing only)	97.71
35	Argentina	97.70
36	Spain	97.63
37	Romania	97.60
38	Bosnia and Herzegovina	97.60
39	Mongolia	97.30
40	Macedonia	97
41	Greece	97
42	New Caledonia	96.30
43	Netherlands Antilles	96.30
44	Costa Rica	96
45	Brunei Darussalam	95
46	Portugal	94.60
47	Singapore	94.50
48	West Bank and Gaza	94.06
49	China	93.70
50	Philippines	93.60
51	Panama	93.50
52	Colombia	93.38
53	Upper middle income	93.32
54	East Asia & Pacific (developing only)	93.21
55	Equatorial Guinea	93
56	Mexico	92.93
57	Vietnam	92.50
58	Malaysia	92.10
59	Burma	91.90
60	Seychelles	91.84
61	High income: nonOECD	91.82
62	Zimbabwe	91.40
63	Latin America & Caribbean (developing only)	91.02
64	Bahrain	90.80
65	Suriname	90.70
66	Sri Lanka	90.56
67	Puerto Rico	90.10
68	Lesotho	89.50
69	South Africa	89
70	Libya	88.40
71	Sao Tome and Principe	88.30
72	Namibia	88.20
73	Mauritius	87.50
74	Gabon	87
75	Oman	86.65
76	Swaziland	86.50
77	Kenya	86.50
78	Jamaica	85.90
79	Saudi Arabia	85.50
80	Cape Verde	84.10
81	El Salvador	83.95
82	Syria	83.60
83	Botswana	83.30
84	Middle income	82.71
85	Vanuatu	81.30
86	Low & middle income	80.21
87	Lower middle income	79.87
88	Tunisia	78
89	Iraq	77.60
90	Cambodia	77.59
91	Cameroon	75.90
92	Uganda	74.60
93	Guatemala	73.80
94	Comoros	73.60
95	Middle East & North Africa (developing only)	73.51
96	Malawi	72.80
97	Tanzania	72.60
98	Zambia	70.70
99	Madagascar	70.68
100	Rwanda	70.30
101	Angola	69.60
102	Sudan	69.30
103	Democratic Republic of the Congo	66.60
104	Low income	66.08
105	Burundi	65.90
106	Ghana	65.80
107	Eritrea	65.30
108	Togo	64.90
109	Sub-Saharan Africa (developing only)	62.43
110	Yemen	60.90
111	South Asia	60.82
112	Nigeria	60.10
113	Papua New Guinea	59.60
114	Liberia	58.10
115	Nepal	57.90
116	Mauritania	56.80
117	Morocco	56.40
118	Bangladesh	55
119	Ivory Coast	54.60
120	Central African Republic	54.60
121	Mozambique	54
122	Pakistan	53.70
123	Guinea-Bissau	51
124	Gambia	45.30
125	Benin	40.80
126	Sierra Leone	39.80
127	Guinea	38
128	Ethiopia	35.90
129	Chad	32.70

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