Literacy rate, youth total

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
172
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
Bahrain202499.52percent
Bolivia, Plurinational State of202499.78percent
Brazil202499.46percent
Cabo Verde202498.32percent
Colombia202498.96percent
Dominican Republic202498.21percent
Ecuador202498.99percent
El Salvador202498.24percent
Georgia202499.66percent
Guatemala202495.36percent

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