Literacy Rate 1983-2025

literacy rate for 2022 was 99.33%, a 0.02% increase from 2021.
  • literacy rate for 2021 was 99.30%, a 0.03% increase from 2020.
  • literacy rate for 2020 was 99.27%, a 0.09% increase from 2019.
  • literacy rate for 2019 was 99.18%, a 0.02% 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.