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Rwanda: Literacy rate, youth total

89.97percent · 2022+72.2% since 1978

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 Rwanda from 1978 to 2022.

19782022

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202289.97
202091.51
201886.49
201588.55
201485.07
201282.33
201080.19
200570.46
200077.62
199174.9
197852.26

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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