Literacy rate, youth (ages 15-24), gender parity index

Gender parity index for youth literacy rate is the ratio of females to males ages 15-24 who can both read and write with understanding a short simple statement about their everyday life.

Publisher
World Bank
Unit
—
Cadence
Annual
Series
173
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
Bahrain20241index (gender parity)
Bolivia, Plurinational State of20241index (gender parity)
Brazil20241index (gender parity)
Cabo Verde20241index (gender parity)
Colombia20241.01index (gender parity)
Dominican Republic20241.01index (gender parity)
Ecuador20241index (gender parity)
El Salvador20241.01index (gender parity)
Georgia20241index (gender parity)
Guatemala20240.99index (gender parity)

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