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Literacy rate, population 25-64 years, non-immigrant background, both sexes
Literacy rate, population 25-64 years, non-immigrant background, both sexes (%). UNESCO Institute for Statistics indicator LR.AG25T64.NATIVE.
- Coverage
- 45 of 251 countries
- Latest data
- 2024
- Series
- 45
- Unit
- percent
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
- Retrieved
- 2026-11-07
- Indicator
- uis-lr-ag25t64-native
- Interva ID
- uis-lr-ag25t64-native
Recency
current
data to 2024; catalog to 2025
Provenance
1 step
as the publisher declares it
Versions
1
catalog snapshots
Citation
BibTeX + CSL
versioned permalink
Quality profile
This profile describes what Interva can measure in the data. It does not claim the dataset is accurate, complete, or suitable for a particular use.
Recency
100%Latest observation is 2024; the catalog broadly reports to 2025, so this data is 1 year(s) behind (current).
Method: Compares the dataset's latest non-projected period with the year most datasets in the catalog end in. Up to 2 years behind is current — annual data is routinely published a year or two late — and more than 5 is stale. Measured from the data, not from when Interva last crawled it.
Temporal completeness
100%17 of 45 series skip at least one year inside their own span; the median series reports 100% of its years.
Method: Per series, years present divided by years from its first to its last observation; the median across series is reported. Annual periods are assumed, which holds for every series in the catalog today.
Geographic coverage
MeasuredCovers 45 of the 251 countries in the catalog.
Method: Counts distinct geographies with at least one observation. Not scored: a regional dataset covering its region completely is not deficient for omitting the rest of the world.
History depth
MeasuredThe median series has 1 observations; the earliest begins in 2007.
Method: Counts non-projected observations per series. Not scored: a long history is useful for trend work and irrelevant for a cross-section.
Revisions
MeasuredNo observation has been restated in any vintage Interva has recorded.
Method: Counts values the publisher changed between Interva's publishes. Not scored: revising estimates is ordinary and often a sign of care, and the count is here so a reader citing a figure knows whether it moves.
Schema conformity
Not assessedNo declared schema or validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.
Validity
Not assessedNo field-level validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.
Consistency
Not assessedCross-series consistency rules are not defined yet. The obvious first one — whether two publishers measuring one concept agree within a stated tolerance — is a candidate.
2 scored from the data, 3 described without a score, 3 not assessed. Pipeline integrity: all 5 checks pass. Assessed 2026-11-08.
By country
Literacy rate, population 25-64 years, non-immigrant background, both sexes for each of the 45 countries it covers, with the full history.
- Armenia 2018–2023
- Bangladesh 2017–2017
- Benin 2011–2022
- Burkina Faso 2018–2023
- Burundi 2014–2014
- Cabo Verde 2009–2009
- Colombia 2022–2024
- Comoros 2014–2021
- Congo, The Democratic Republic of the 2020–2020
- Dominican Republic 2015–2024
- Ecuador 2024–2024
- Ethiopia 2019–2022
- Ghana 2015–2015
- Guatemala 2024–2024
- Haiti 2012–2012
- Honduras 2023–2023
- Lesotho 2019–2019
- Liberia 2010–2010
- Malawi 2017–2020
- Maldives 2016–2019
- Marshall Islands 2019–2021
- Mexico 2008–2024
- Mongolia 2019–2024
- Myanmar 2014–2014
- Namibia 2016–2018
- Nauru 2021–2021
- Nepal 2008–2008
- Niger 2014–2014
- Nigeria 2024–2024
- Niue 2017–2022
- Pakistan 2021–2021
- Palau 2020–2020
- Panama 2021–2024
- Rwanda 2020–2022
- Somalia 2019–2023
- Tajikistan 2007–2009
- Togo 2017–2017
- Tokelau 2022–2022
- Tonga 2023–2023
- Tuvalu 2022–2022
- Uganda 2021–2024
- Uruguay 2022–2024
- Vanuatu 2020–2020
- Wallis and Futuna 2018–2023
- Zambia 2021–2022
Latest observations
| Country | Period | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colombia | 2024 | 96.36 | percent |
| Dominican Republic | 2024 | 95.38 | percent |
| Ecuador | 2024 | 94.84 | percent |
| Guatemala | 2024 | 81.74 | percent |
| Mexico | 2024 | 96.58 | percent |
| Mongolia | 2024 | 98.41 | percent |
| Nigeria | 2024 | 67.58 | percent |
| Panama | 2024 | 96.82 | percent |
| Uganda | 2024 | 75.49 | percent |
| Uruguay | 2024 | 99.17 | percent |
Provenance
Who produced these figures, as UIS declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.
Produced by
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
UIS Data API indicator LR.AG25T64.NATIVE; national ministries' survey returns, not named per figure by the publisher
declared by uis in indicator
Versions
A vintage is a dated publish of the catalog. The current entry is a catalog snapshot; checksums are not recorded yet and are shown as such.
- CurrentCurrent catalog snapshotchecksum not recorded
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Citation
Version: catalog snapshot 2026-11-07. The record labels this as a catalog snapshot because immutable dataset releases are not stored yet.
UIS (2026). Literacy rate, population 25-64 years, non-immigrant background, both sexes. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/uis-lr-ag25t64-native (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.
@misc{interva-uis-lr-ag25t64-native,
title = {Literacy rate, population 25-64 years, non-immigrant background, both sexes},
author = {UIS},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://interva.co/dataset/uis-lr-ag25t64-native}},
note = {Interva dataset uis-lr-ag25t64-native; catalog snapshot 2026-11-07},
urldate = {2026-11-08}
}DOI: not assigned (not assigned). The permalink is versioned by catalog snapshot; a stable dataset DOI is a later step.
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