Literacy Rate 1972-2025

literacy rate for 2022 was 77.40%, a 0.4% increase from 2021.
  • literacy rate for 2021 was 77.00%, a 0.37% increase from 2020.
  • literacy rate for 2020 was 76.64%, a 0.36% increase from 2019.
  • literacy rate for 2019 was 76.28%, a 0.38% increase from 2018.
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.