Literacy Rate 1984-2025

literacy rate for 2022 was 85.84%, a 0.13% increase from 2021.
  • literacy rate for 2021 was 85.71%, a 0.07% increase from 2020.
  • literacy rate for 2020 was 85.64%, a 0.24% increase from 2019.
  • literacy rate for 2019 was 85.39%, a 0.23% 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.