Youth literacy rate (% of people ages 15-24)
2016
Methodology
Youth literacy rate is the percentage of people ages 15-24 who can both read and write with understanding a short simple statement about their everyday life. Performance score from 0 to 100. The highest score reflects the best situation.
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators 2015 (based on data from UNESCO)
Score
- Africa68
- Sub-Saharan Africa66
- Middle East and North Africa92
- Southern Africa88
- Central Africa67
- East Africa73
- West Africa47
- North Africa92
- Brazil-India-China (BIC)94
- Least Developped Countries (LDC)56
- No LDC85
- High income non OECD97
- Upper middle income countries93
- Lower middle income74
- Low income countries54
- Outsize the Franc zone76
- Franc CFA zone48
- WAMEU40
- CEMAC60
- Algeria92
- Angola71
- Benin38
- Botswana93
- Brazil99
- Burkina Faso35
- Burundi74
- Cameroon75
- Cape Verde98
- Central African Republic17
- Chad10
- China100
- Comoros63
- Congo, Dem. Rep.81
- Congo, Rep75
- Cote d'Ivoire39
- Djibouti-
- Egypt90
- Equatorial Guinea97
- Eritrea-
- Ethiopia41
- Gabon85
- Gambia49
- Ghana82
- Guinea30
- Guinea-Bissau48
- India82
- Kenya83
- Lesotho83
- Liberia34
- Libya-
- Madagascar70
- Malawi65
- Mali34
- Mauritania43
- Mauritius98
- Morocco89
- Mozambique57
- Namibia93
- Niger<0
- Nigeria56
- Rwanda77
- Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic-
- Sao Tome and Principe96
- Senegal43
- Seychelles99
- Sierra Leone-
- Somalia-
- South Africa99
- South Sudan-
- Sudan56
- Swaziland92
- Tanzania82
- Togo80
- Tunisia95
- Uganda79
- Zambia86
- Zimbabwe88