Literacy Rate 1975-2025

literacy rate for 2022 was 80.83%, a 0.47% increase from 2021.
  • literacy rate for 2021 was 80.36%, a 0.4% increase from 2020.
  • literacy rate for 2020 was 79.96%, a 0.47% increase from 2019.
  • literacy rate for 2019 was 79.49%, a 0.3% 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.