Literacy rate, youth total (% of people 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 total (% of people ages 15-24) - Outcomes - Education - World Development Indicators (2008)
1	Cuba	100
2	Uzbekistan	99.90
3	Cyprus	99.90
4	Italy	99.90
5	Tajikistan	99.90
6	Slovenia	99.80
7	Ukraine	99.80
8	Lithuania	99.80
9	Libya	99.80
10	Armenia	99.80
11	Turkmenistan	99.80
12	Estonia	99.80
13	Kazakhstan	99.80
14	Poland	99.80
15	Belarus	99.80
16	Singapore	99.80
17	Georgia	99.80
18	Latvia	99.70
19	Russia	99.70
20	Bahrain	99.70
21	Portugal	99.70
22	Brunei Darussalam	99.70
23	Kyrgyzstan	99.60
24	New Caledonia	99.60
25	Croatia	99.60
26	Spain	99.56
27	Samoa	99.50
28	Trinidad and Tobago	99.50
29	Moldova	99.50
30	Albania	99.40
31	Greece	99.30
32	Aruba	99.30
33	China	99.30
34	Bosnia and Herzegovina	99.20
35	Chile	99.15
36	West Bank and Gaza	99.15
37	Argentina	99.10
38	Uruguay	98.97
39	Zimbabwe	98.90
40	Macedonia	98.70
41	Europe & Central Asia	98.69
42	Hungary	98.60
43	Malaysia	98.40
44	Mexico	98.38
45	Netherlands Antilles	98.30
46	Costa Rica	98.10
47	Cape Verde	98
48	Colombia	97.99
49	East Asia & Pacific	97.98
50	Sri Lanka	97.98
51	Upper middle income	97.89
52	Latin America & Caribbean	97.80
53	Equatorial Guinea	97.80
54	Oman	97.63
55	Gabon	97.40
56	Bulgaria	97.30
57	Romania	97.30
58	Saudi Arabia	97.30
59	Vietnam	96.80
60	South Africa	96.80
61	Panama	96.40
62	Mauritius	96.40
63	Tunisia	96.10
64	El Salvador	95.96
65	Burma	95.60
66	Mongolia	95.30
67	Suriname	95.30
68	Sao Tome and Principe	95.20
69	Botswana	95.10
70	Jamaica	95
71	Philippines	94.80
72	Syria	94.10
73	Vanuatu	93.60
74	Swaziland	93.20
75	Namibia	92.90
76	Kenya	92.30
77	Lesotho	91.90
78	Middle income	87.93
79	Eritrea	87.80
80	Uganda	87.30
81	Cambodia	87
82	Low & middle income	86.12
83	Guatemala	86
84	Middle East & North Africa	85.93
85	Cameroon	85.80
86	Malawi	85.70
87	Lower middle income	85.54
88	Puerto Rico	85.40
89	Sudan	85.20
90	Comoros	84.90
91	Togo	83.50
92	Yemen	82.90
93	Iraq	82.40
94	Nepal	80.80
95	Ghana	79.30
96	Tanzania	77.50
97	Rwanda	77.10
98	Low income	76.62
99	Morocco	76.60
100	Burundi	75.90
101	Liberia	74.80
102	Zambia	74.80
103	Bangladesh	74.40
104	South Asia	72.95
105	Angola	72.90
106	Nigeria	71.50
107	Least developed countries: UN classification	71.11
108	Sub-Saharan Africa	70.87
109	Mozambique	69.90
110	Guinea-Bissau	69.60
111	Pakistan	68.86
112	Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC)	68.25
113	Mauritania	67
114	Papua New Guinea	66.50
115	Ivory Coast	66.10
116	Democratic Republic of the Congo	65.30
117	Central African Republic	64.20
118	Gambia	64.10
119	Sierra Leone	55.70
120	Benin	53.30
121	Chad	45.40

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