Malaysia literacy rate for 2022 was 95.77%, a 0.8% increase from 2019.
Malaysia literacy rate for 2019 was 94.97%, a 0.12% increase from 2018.
Malaysia literacy rate for 2018 was 94.85%, a 0.23% decline from 2017.
Malaysia literacy rate for 2017 was 95.08%, a 0.2% increase from 2016.
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. The full historical dataset is available for download here: Malaysia Literacy Rate | Historical Data | 1980 - 2022.