Literacy rate, youth total (% of people ages 15-24) - Millennium Development Goals Indicators

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Target 2.A: Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling

Rank	Country	Value
Literacy rate, youth total (% of people ages 15-24) - Millennium Development Goals Indicators (2008)
1	Cuba	100
2	South Korea	100
3	North Korea	100
4	Cyprus	99.90
5	Italy	99.90
6	Tajikistan	99.90
7	Kazakhstan	99.80
8	Singapore	99.80
9	Slovenia	99.80
10	Armenia	99.80
11	Libya	99.80
12	Turkmenistan	99.80
13	Belarus	99.80
14	Ukraine	99.80
15	Uzbekistan	99.80
16	Georgia	99.80
17	Poland	99.80
18	Estonia	99.80
19	Lithuania	99.80
20	Russia	99.70
21	Portugal	99.70
22	Bahrain	99.70
23	Brunei Darussalam	99.70
24	Latvia	99.70
25	High income: OECD	99.65
26	New Caledonia	99.60
27	Kyrgyzstan	99.60
28	Croatia	99.60
29	Spain	99.56
30	High income	99.53
31	Moldova	99.50
32	Western Samoa	99.50
33	Trinidad and Tobago	99.50
34	Albania	99.40
35	Aruba	99.30
36	China	99.30
37	Greece	99.30
38	Serbia	99.30
39	Bosnia and Herzegovina	99.20
40	West Bank and Gaza	99.15
41	Chile	99.15
42	Argentina	99.10
43	Seychelles	99.06
44	Europe & Central Asia (developing only)	99
45	Uruguay	98.97
46	Antigua and Barbuda	98.95
47	Zimbabwe	98.90
48	Macedonia	98.70
49	Hungary	98.60
50	Malaysia	98.40
51	Mexico	98.38
52	Netherlands Antilles	98.30
53	High income: nonOECD	98.23
54	East Asia & Pacific (developing only)	98.17
55	Costa Rica	98.10
56	Cape Verde	98
57	Colombia	97.99
58	Sri Lanka	97.98
59	Upper middle income	97.91
60	Equatorial Guinea	97.80
61	Oman	97.63
62	Gabon	97.40
63	Saudi Arabia	97.30
64	Bulgaria	97.30
65	Romania	97.30
66	Latin America & Caribbean (developing only)	96.94
67	South Africa	96.80
68	Vietnam	96.80
69	Tunisia	96.79
70	Mauritius	96.40
71	Panama	96.40
72	El Salvador	95.96
73	Burma	95.60
74	Suriname	95.30
75	Mongolia	95.30
76	Sao Tome and Principe	95.20
77	Botswana	95.10
78	Jamaica	95
79	Philippines	94.80
80	Syria	94.10
81	Vanuatu	93.60
82	Swaziland	93.20
83	Namibia	92.90
84	Kenya	92.30
85	Lesotho	91.90
86	Middle income	90.59
87	Middle East & North Africa (developing only)	89.28
88	Lower middle income	88.83
89	Eritrea	87.80
90	Low & middle income	87.70
91	Cambodia	87.47
92	Uganda	87.30
93	Guatemala	86
94	Cameroon	85.80
95	Malawi	85.70
96	Puerto Rico	85.40
97	Sudan	85.20
98	Comoros	84.90
99	Togo	83.50
100	Yemen	82.90
101	Iraq	82.40
102	Nepal	80.80
103	Ghana	79.30
104	South Asia	78.28
105	Tanzania	77.50
106	Rwanda	77.10
107	Morocco	76.60
108	Burundi	75.90
109	Low income	74.97
110	Liberia	74.80
111	Zambia	74.80
112	Bangladesh	74.40
113	Angola	72.90
114	Sub-Saharan Africa (developing only)	71.85
115	Nigeria	71.50
116	Madagascar	70.24
117	Mozambique	69.90
118	Guinea-Bissau	69.60
119	Pakistan	68.86
120	Mauritania	67
121	Papua New Guinea	66.50
122	Ivory Coast	66.10
123	Democratic Republic of the Congo	65.30
124	Central African Republic	64.20
125	Gambia	64.10
126	Guinea	58.70
127	Sierra Leone	55.70
128	Benin	53.30
129	Ethiopia	49.90
130	Chad	45.40

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