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Peru: Literacy rate, youth total

99.49percent · 2024+0.5% since 2014

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. Annual figures for Peru from 1981 to 2024.

19812024

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202499.49
202399.4
202299.3
202199.1
202099.44
201999.1
201899.02
201799.06
201698.88
201599.01
201498.98
201398.9
201298.7
201198.5
201098.3
200998.3
200897.8
200797.36
200697.76
200597.12
200496.76
200396.8
200296.8
200197.2
200097.6
199395.37
198193.12

Source

Published by World Bank, produced by UNESCO. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-07.

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World Bank (2026). Literacy rate, youth total. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-literacy-rate-youth-total (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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