Literacy rate, youth male (% of males ages 15-24) - Outcomes - Education - World Development Indicators

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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 male (% of males ages 15-24) - Outcomes - Education - World Development Indicators (2008)
1	Cuba	100
2	Italy	99.90
3	Tajikistan	99.90
4	Libya	99.90
5	Kazakhstan	99.80
6	Lithuania	99.80
7	Bahrain	99.80
8	Slovenia	99.80
9	Turkmenistan	99.80
10	Uzbekistan	99.80
11	Georgia	99.80
12	Cyprus	99.80
13	Poland	99.80
14	Estonia	99.70
15	Portugal	99.70
16	Armenia	99.70
17	Belarus	99.70
18	Singapore	99.70
19	Bosnia and Herzegovina	99.70
20	Brunei Darussalam	99.70
21	Latvia	99.70
22	Ukraine	99.70
23	Russia	99.60
24	Croatia	99.60
25	Spain	99.53
26	Trinidad and Tobago	99.50
27	Kyrgyzstan	99.50
28	Samoa	99.40
29	Greece	99.40
30	China	99.40
31	New Caledonia	99.40
32	Europe & Central Asia	99.35
33	Moldova	99.30
34	Albania	99.30
35	West Bank and Gaza	99.27
36	Aruba	99.20
37	Chile	99.11
38	Argentina	99
39	Macedonia	98.90
40	Uruguay	98.63
41	Mexico	98.41
42	Saudi Arabia	98.40
43	Gabon	98.40
44	Hungary	98.30
45	Netherlands Antilles	98.30
46	Zimbabwe	98.30
47	East Asia & Pacific	98.30
48	Malaysia	98.30
49	Upper middle income	97.93
50	Costa Rica	97.70
51	Oman	97.63
52	Equatorial Guinea	97.60
53	Colombia	97.55
54	Sri Lanka	97.33
55	Bulgaria	97.30
56	Vietnam	97.20
57	Cape Verde	97.20
58	Tunisia	97.20
59	Latin America & Caribbean	97.19
60	Romania	97.10
61	Panama	96.60
62	South Africa	96.10
63	Burma	96
64	Suriname	95.70
65	Syria	95.60
66	El Salvador	95.41
67	Mauritius	95.40
68	Yemen	95.10
69	Sao Tome and Principe	94.70
70	Philippines	93.90
71	Botswana	93.80
72	Vanuatu	93.50
73	Middle income	93.42
74	Mongolia	93.30
75	Lower middle income	92.36
76	Middle East & North Africa	92.21
77	Kenya	91.80
78	Swaziland	91.80
79	Jamaica	91.80
80	Low & middle income	91.52
81	Namibia	91.10
82	Eritrea	91.10
83	Cambodia	90.10
84	Uganda	89.10
85	Sudan	88.60
86	Guatemala	88.50
87	Cameroon	88.20
88	Togo	87
89	Malawi	86.50
90	Nepal	86.20
91	Puerto Rico	85.80
92	Comoros	85.70
93	South Asia	85.67
94	Lesotho	85.60
95	Morocco	84.80
96	Iraq	84.50
97	Zambia	82.10
98	Low income	81.28
99	Angola	80.80
100	Ghana	80.60
101	Sub-Saharan Africa	79
102	Tanzania	78.70
103	Pakistan	78.51
104	Nigeria	78.30
105	Mozambique	77.70
106	Guinea-Bissau	77.60
107	Least developed countries: UN classification	77.47
108	Rwanda	77.10
109	Burundi	76.50
110	Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC)	76.13
111	Bangladesh	73.30
112	Central African Republic	72.10
113	Ivory Coast	72
114	Mauritania	70.50
115	Liberia	70.10
116	Gambia	70.10
117	Democratic Republic of the Congo	68.80
118	Sierra Leone	66
119	Papua New Guinea	64.60
120	Benin	64.10
121	Chad	53.50

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