World Bank · Social Development

Literacy rate (% of male persons with no functional difficulty)

Literacy rate

Coverage
54 of 238 countries
Latest data
2022
Series
54
Unit
percent
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Retrieved
2026-11-07
Indicator
literacy-rate-litr_none_dfcl_male
Interva ID
worldbank-literacy-rate-litr_none_dfcl_male

Recency

aging

data to 2022; 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

50%

Latest observation is 2022; the catalog broadly reports to 2025, so this data is 3 year(s) behind (aging).

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%

1 of 54 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

Measured

Covers 54 of the 238 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

Measured

The median series has 1 observations; the earliest begins in 2009.

Method: Counts non-projected observations per series. Not scored: a long history is useful for trend work and irrelevant for a cross-section.

Revisions

Measured

No 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 assessed

No declared schema or validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.

Validity

Not assessed

No field-level validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.

Consistency

Not assessed

Cross-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 2026-11-07.

By country

Literacy rate (% of male persons with no functional difficulty) for each of the 54 countries it covers, with the full history.

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Brazil202296.80percent
Cambodia202260.45percent
Colombia202296.97percent
Kenya202283.72percent
Nepal202281.68percent
Somalia202265.59percent
Bolivia, Plurinational State of202198.50percent
Ethiopia202168.02percent
Ghana202179.73percent
Mauritania202152.10percent

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

    World Bank

    Disability Data Hub

    declared by worldbank in source

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.

World Bank (2026). Literacy rate (% of male persons with no functional difficulty). Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-literacy-rate-litr_none_dfcl_male (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

BibTeX
@misc{interva-worldbank-literacy-rate-litr_none_dfcl_male,
  title        = {Literacy rate (\% of male persons with no functional difficulty)},
  author       = {World Bank},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-literacy-rate-litr_none_dfcl_male}},
  note         = {Interva dataset worldbank-literacy-rate-litr\_none\_dfcl\_male; catalog snapshot 2026-11-07},
  urldate      = {2026-11-07}
}

DOI: not assigned (not assigned). The permalink is versioned by catalog snapshot; a stable dataset DOI is a later step.

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