Literacy Rate 1986-2025

literacy rate for 2022 was 64.98%, a 0.3% increase from 2021.
  • literacy rate for 2021 was 64.68%, a 0.49% increase from 2020.
  • literacy rate for 2020 was 64.19%, a 0.24% increase from 2019.
  • literacy rate for 2019 was 63.95%, a 0.31% 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.