Literacy rate, youth female
Youth literacy rate is the percentage of people 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.
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World Development Indicators
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Latest observations
| Country | Period | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bahrain | 2024 | 99.53 | percent |
| Bolivia, Plurinational State of | 2024 | 99.70 | percent |
| Brazil | 2024 | 99.69 | percent |
| Cabo Verde | 2024 | 98.16 | percent |
| Colombia | 2024 | 99.53 | percent |
| Dominican Republic | 2024 | 98.79 | percent |
| Ecuador | 2024 | 99.19 | percent |
| El Salvador | 2024 | 98.60 | percent |
| Georgia | 2024 | 99.78 | percent |
| Guatemala | 2024 | 95.10 | percent |
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