Literacy Rate 1993-2025

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Literacy Rate

literacy rate for 2008 was 91.04%, a 0.21% increase from 2007.

literacy rate for 2007 was 90.83%, a 0.57% increase from 2006.
literacy rate for 2006 was 90.26%, a 0.15% increase from 2005.
literacy rate for 2005 was 90.10%, a 0.28% increase from 2004.

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.