Literacy rate, adult female

Adult literacy rate is the percentage of people ages 15 and above who can both read and write with understanding a short simple statement about their everyday life.

Publisher
World Bank
Unit
Cadence
Annual
Series
171
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Updated
2026-09-06

Provenance

Who produced these figures, as World Bank declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.

  1. Produced by

    UNESCO

    Data API, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), uri: https://databrowser.uis.unesco.org/resources, note: The data are obtained through the UIS API. Detailed documentation is available at: https://api.uis.unesco.org/api/public/documentation/, publisher: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), type: Excel (bulk file), date accessed: 2026-03-19, date published: 2026-02

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

    declared by worldbank in source

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Bahrain202496.29percent
Bolivia, Plurinational State of202494.82percent
Brazil202495.01percent
Cabo Verde202484.12percent
Colombia202495.69percent
Dominican Republic202494.43percent
Ecuador202492.58percent
El Salvador202488.25percent
Georgia202499.62percent
Guatemala202478.46percent

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