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Philippines: Literacy rate, adult total (% of people 15+)

98.47percent · 2020+18.2% since 1980

Adult literacy rate. Annual figures for Philippines from 1980 to 2020.

19802020

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202098.47
201996.28
201598.18
201396.4
201097.09
200895.42
200392.59
200092.6
199493.92
199093.57
198083.32

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

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World Bank (2026). Literacy rate, adult total (% of people 15+). Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-literacy-rate (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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