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

97.65percent · 2021+1.5% since 2011

Adult literacy rate. Annual figures for Singapore from 1980 to 2021.

19802021

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202197.65
202097.13
201997.48
201897.34
201797.2
201697.05
201596.83
201496.72
201396.55
201296.37
201196.19
201095.86
200092.55
199089.1
198082.91

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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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