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

99.70percent · 2021+2.1% since 2009

Adult literacy rate. Annual figures for Spain from 1981 to 2021.

19812021

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202199.7
202098.59
201898.44
201698.25
201598.14
201498.09
201398.08
201297.89
201197.78
201097.75
200997.68
200897.63
200797.94
200697.75
200597.75
200497.17
199196.49
198192.81

Source

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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