Literacy rate, young men aged 15 to 24

percent, 1999–2016

Country	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
Afghanistan													61.88
Albania			99.37	99.25	99.13	99.01	98.89	98.77	98.66	98.54	98.60	98.67	98.73	99.38
Algeria				94.06	94.14	94.22	94.30	94.38	95.06	95.75
Andorra																	100.00	100.00
Angola			83.78	83.86	83.94	84.03	84.11	84.19	84.28	84.36	84.44	84.53	84.61	84.70	84.78	84.86
Argentina			98.71	98.74	98.77	98.80	98.83	98.86	98.89	98.92	98.95	98.98	99.01	99.04	99.07	99.10	99.13
Armenia			99.75	99.76	99.77	99.77	99.78	99.79	99.79	99.80	99.81	99.81	99.82
Aruba		98.88	98.89	98.90	98.91	98.92	98.92	98.93	98.94	98.95	98.96	98.97
Azerbaijan	99.87	99.89	99.90	99.92	99.94	99.95	99.97	99.98	100.00	99.98	99.96	99.97	99.96	99.96	99.98	99.98	99.96	99.96
Bahrain			96.83	97.03	97.23	97.42	97.62	97.82	98.02	98.22	98.42	98.62
Bangladesh			67.16	65.02	62.87	60.72	58.57	56.42	54.27	54.64	55.01	55.38	55.75	62.78	69.81	76.84	83.88	90.91
Belarus	99.76	99.76	99.77	99.77	99.77	99.78	99.78	99.79	99.79	99.80	99.80
Benin				59.21	58.12	57.04	55.95	54.87	56.38	57.89	59.40	60.92	62.43	63.94
Bhutan							80.04	81.52	83.00	84.48	85.96	87.44	88.92	90.40
Bolivia			98.55	98.75	98.95	99.15	99.35	99.55	99.75	99.39	99.69	99.47	99.25	99.16	99.24	99.32	99.39
Bosnia and Herzegovina		99.75	99.75	99.75	99.75	99.75	99.75	99.75	99.75	99.75	99.75	99.75	99.75	99.70	99.66
Botswana					92.08
Brazil		92.65	93.44	94.22	95.00	95.78	96.29	96.80	97.06	97.18	97.45	96.72	97.91	98.23	98.25	98.45
Brunei			98.87	98.91	98.94	98.97	99.00	99.04	99.07	99.10	99.13	99.17	99.20
Bulgaria			98.31	98.29	98.26	98.24	98.21	98.19	98.16	98.14	98.12	98.09	98.07
Burkina Faso					38.38	39.38	40.38	39.82	46.73	48.20	49.67	51.13	52.60	54.06	55.53	56.99
Burundi		76.78	75.51	74.24	72.97	71.70	70.43	69.16	67.89	66.61	69.73	72.84	75.95	79.06	82.18	85.29
Cape Verde														97.87	97.78	97.68	97.59
Cambodia						87.92	88.29	88.65	89.02	89.38	88.36
Cameroon		88.42	88.56	88.71	88.85	88.99	89.13	89.28	89.42	88.08	86.74	85.40
Cayman Islands									99.14
Central African Republic		72.59	70.22	67.85	65.47	63.10	60.73	58.35	55.98	53.60	51.23	48.86
Chad		55.69	55.19	54.70	54.20	53.71	53.54	53.37	53.20	53.03	52.86	52.69	52.52	52.35	52.18	52.01	51.84	40.69
Chile				98.80	98.86	98.91	98.96	99.01	99.06	99.11	98.86	99.04	99.21	99.11	99.01
China		99.20	99.25	99.30	99.35	99.39	99.44	99.49	99.54	99.59	99.64	99.69
Colombia						97.55	97.52	97.53	97.48	97.55	97.44	97.68	97.76	97.88	97.99	98.11	98.16
Comoros		83.95	83.11	82.26	81.42	80.57	79.73	78.88	78.04	77.19	76.35	75.50	74.66	73.81
Congo (Kinshasa)			77.98	78.14	78.30	78.46	78.62	78.78	78.94	81.36	83.78	86.20	88.63	91.05	91.03	91.00	90.98	90.96
Congo (Brazzaville)													85.68
Costa Rica		97.20	97.36	97.53	97.69	97.86	98.02	98.18	98.35	98.51	98.68	98.84	99.01
Ivory Coast		70.84	69.80	68.76	67.71	66.67	65.63	64.59	63.54	62.50	61.46	60.42	59.38	58.33	58.73	59.12
Croatia			99.64	99.65	99.66	99.66	99.67	99.68	99.68	99.69	99.70	99.71	99.71
Cuba				99.96	99.95	99.94	99.93	99.92	99.91	99.90	99.89	99.88	99.87	99.86
Cyprus			99.74	99.74	99.75	99.76	99.76	99.77	99.78	99.78	99.79	99.80	99.80
Dominican Republic				93.00	93.32	93.65	93.98	94.30	94.63	95.01	95.39	95.78	96.09	96.32	96.76	97.35	97.23
Ecuador			96.38	96.19	95.99	95.80	95.61	95.41	95.22	96.02	96.82	98.47	98.59	98.77	98.58	99.01	99.34	98.98
Egypt							90.08	87.86	88.53	89.21	89.88	90.56	91.46	92.36	93.65
El Salvador								94.40	93.22	95.41	94.71	95.67	96.15	96.55	96.95	97.20	97.46
Equatorial Guinea		97.61
Eritrea				86.25	87.09	87.93	88.77	89.61	90.45	91.29
Estonia		99.73	99.75	99.77	99.79	99.81	99.82	99.84	99.86	99.88	99.90	99.92	99.94
Ethiopia						62.20	55.88	59.43	62.97
Gabon														87.39
Gambia		64.34	64.47	64.59	64.72	64.84	64.97	65.10	65.22	65.35	65.47	65.60	65.72	65.85	65.98
Georgia				99.79	99.78	99.77	99.76	99.75	99.74	99.73	99.72	99.71	99.71	99.70	99.69	99.68
Ghana		75.95	77.18	78.42	79.66	80.89	82.13	83.36	84.60	85.84	87.07	88.31
Greece			98.89	99.05	99.21	99.37	99.53	99.49	99.45	99.48	99.51	99.05	98.58
Greenland																	100.00
Guatemala				86.38	87.29	88.20	89.11	90.01	90.92	91.83	92.74	93.65	94.56	95.47	94.18	95.48
Guinea					59.46	56.33	53.21	50.08	46.95	43.82	40.70	37.57	42.42	47.27	52.12	56.97
Guinea Bissau		74.80	74.55	74.29	74.04	73.79	73.53	73.28	73.03	72.77	72.52	72.26	72.01	71.76	71.50	71.25
Guyana											92.42	93.20	93.99	94.77	95.55	96.33
Haiti					82.66	79.89	77.13	74.37
Honduras			86.89	87.86	88.83	89.79	90.76	91.73	92.70	93.28	93.86	94.45	94.93	94.00	93.85	95.05	94.99	94.95
India			84.19	85.04	85.88	86.72	87.57	88.41	88.74	89.07	89.39	89.72	90.04
Indonesia						98.87	97.95	97.03	98.28	99.54	99.55	99.18	98.80	99.10	99.39	99.68	99.70	99.68
Iran							98.11	97.15	97.70	98.26	98.28	98.30	98.31	98.33	98.11	98.19
Iraq		88.91	86.46	84.00	81.55	79.10	76.64	74.19	71.73	69.28	66.82	64.37	61.92	59.46	57.01
Italy			99.80	99.81	99.81	99.82	99.82	99.83	99.83	99.84	99.84	99.85	99.85
Jamaica	87.31
Jordan					99.33	99.13	98.93	98.94	98.95	98.89	98.82	98.76	99.05	99.00
Kazakhstan	99.82	99.81	99.81	99.81	99.81	99.81	99.81	99.81	99.81	99.81	99.80	99.94
Kenya		93.31	91.87	90.42	88.98	87.54	86.09	84.65	83.21	83.74	84.27	84.81	85.34	85.87	86.41	86.94
North Korea										100.00
Kuwait							99.69	98.52	98.40	98.57	98.81	99.06	98.90	98.74	99.25	99.20	99.15
Kyrgyzstan	99.65	99.66	99.66	99.67	99.67	99.68	99.68	99.69	99.69	99.70	99.70
Laos		88.06	82.60	84.25	85.89	87.54	89.19	87.20	85.22	83.23	81.24	79.26	77.27
Latvia		99.72	99.73	99.73	99.74	99.75	99.76	99.76	99.77	99.78	99.79	99.79	99.80
Lebanon									98.40	98.78	99.16
Lesotho		84.83	83.64	82.46	81.28	80.10	78.91	77.73	76.55	75.37	74.19	75.27	76.35	77.44	78.52	79.61
Liberia									63.45
Lithuania			99.66	99.68	99.70	99.72	99.74	99.75	99.77	99.79	99.81	99.83	99.85
Macau			99.43	99.46	99.49	99.52	99.56	99.59	99.60	99.61	99.63	99.64	99.65	99.67	99.68	99.70	99.71	99.73
Macedonia (F.Y.R.O.M.)				98.99
Madagascar		72.65	71.91	71.16	70.41	69.66	68.91	68.16	67.41	66.66	65.91	70.08	74.25	78.41
Malawi												74.27	75.40	76.53	77.66	78.78	72.49
Malaysia		97.21	97.33	97.44	97.56	97.68	97.79	97.91	98.03	98.15	98.26	98.38
Maldives		98.03	98.24	98.44	98.64	98.84	99.04	99.24	99.22	99.20	99.18	99.16	99.14	99.12	99.10	99.08
Mali								47.38	49.63	51.88	54.12	56.37	56.32	57.37	58.42	59.47	60.53
Malta							97.46	97.62	97.77	97.93	98.09	98.25	98.40
Marshall Islands													98.17
Mauritania		67.73	67.54	67.35	67.16	66.97	66.78	66.59	66.40
Mauritius		93.72	94.08	94.44	94.80	95.16	95.53	95.89	96.25	96.61	96.97	97.33	97.69
Mexico		96.75	97.35	97.94	97.73	97.52	97.64	98.11	98.20	98.41	98.67	98.38	98.42	98.72	98.53	98.92	98.87
Moldova		99.40	99.40	99.39	99.39	99.38	99.38	99.37	99.37	99.36	99.35	99.35	99.34	99.34
Mongolia		97.00	97.10	97.20	97.31	97.41	97.51	97.61	97.71	97.82	97.92	98.02
Montenegro					99.46	99.45	99.43	99.42	99.41	99.40	99.39	99.37	99.36
Morocco						80.80	82.05	83.30	84.55	85.81	86.73	87.78	88.83	94.63
Mozambique					74.36	75.27	76.19	77.10	78.01	78.93	79.84
Burma (Myanmar)		95.79	95.12	94.45	93.79	93.12	92.45	91.79	91.12	90.45	89.79	89.12	88.45	87.79	87.12	86.45	85.79	85.12
Namibia			91.15	89.83	88.51	87.19	85.88	84.56	83.24	85.79	88.35	90.90	93.46
Nepal			80.62	81.54	82.47	83.40	84.32	85.25	86.18	87.10	88.03	88.96	89.88
Nicaragua			83.63	84.01	84.39	84.77	85.16
Niger			26.23	32.78	39.34	45.89	52.45	49.89	47.33	44.77	42.21	39.65	37.09	34.53
Nigeria					78.13	77.62	77.10	76.59	76.08	75.57
Oman					97.87	97.82	97.77	97.73	97.68	97.63	97.52	97.41	97.84	98.27	98.70	99.13	99.43	98.51
Pakistan							76.65	79.10	79.26	79.42	79.14	79.50	78.04	80.29	79.40	79.77
Palau															99.77	99.01	98.25
Panama		96.53	96.67	96.81	96.95	97.09	97.23	97.37	97.51	97.65	97.79	97.93
Papua New Guinea		69.13
Paraguay									98.81	97.69	98.04	98.50	98.60	98.70	98.80	98.91	98.04
Peru						97.80	97.92	98.51	98.01	98.15	98.30	98.44	98.58	98.72	98.94	99.16	99.24	99.09
Philippines		94.46	94.16	93.87	93.58	94.27	94.96	95.64	96.33	97.02	97.10	97.18	97.26	97.34	97.43
Portugal													99.39
Puerto Rico												98.81
Qatar						94.89	96.29	97.69	99.10	95.32	97.70	96.32	97.58	98.69	98.82	98.38
Romania				97.74	97.89	98.03	98.17	98.31	98.45	98.59	98.73	98.87	99.01
Russia				99.68	99.68	99.68	99.67	99.67	99.67	99.67	99.66	99.66
Rwanda		78.52	78.34	78.15	77.96	77.78	77.59	77.40	77.22	77.03	76.84	76.66	78.89	81.12
Samoa													99.03
Saint Thomas and Principe			95.97	94.13	92.28	90.44	88.59	86.75	84.90	83.06	86.57	90.09	93.60	97.12
Saudi Arabia		98.07	97.79	97.51	97.23	96.95	97.21	97.47	97.74	98.00	98.26	98.52	98.78	99.04	99.30
Senegal				58.49	58.40	58.31	58.22	58.13	63.48	68.84	74.20	74.08	73.97	67.54	61.11
Serbia													99.35	99.42	99.49	99.57	99.64	99.72
Seychelles				98.77	98.75	98.72	98.70	98.68	98.66	98.63	98.61	98.59
Sierra Leone						59.61	60.16	60.71	61.25	61.80	62.35	62.89	63.44	63.98	64.53
Singapore		99.41	99.44	99.48	99.51	99.54	99.57	99.61	99.64	99.67	99.71	99.74	99.89	99.90	99.90	99.90	99.74	99.91
South Africa									97.05	97.48	97.92	98.39	98.43	98.50	98.59	98.68	98.68
South Sudan										44.08
Spain						99.58	99.57	99.58	99.58	99.53	99.64	99.51	99.65	99.64	99.69	99.76	99.62	99.64
Sri Lanka			95.07	95.46	95.85	96.24	96.63	97.03	97.18	97.33	97.51	97.69
Sudan		85.69	83.57	81.44	79.31	77.18	75.05	72.92	70.80	68.67
Suriname						95.62	96.56	97.50	98.44	99.38	98.67	97.97	98.03	98.09
Swaziland		90.69	90.84	90.99	91.14	91.29	91.44	91.59	91.74	91.89	92.04	92.19
Syria				97.14	95.88	94.61
Tajikistan		99.84
Tanzania				80.92	80.36	79.81	79.26	78.70	78.15	77.60	77.04	76.49	81.83	87.17	87.12	87.07	87.01
Thailand		98.10	98.12	98.15	98.17	98.19	98.22	97.90	97.59	97.27	96.96	96.64	97.09	97.53	97.98	97.99	98.00
Timor Leste												80.49
Togo		83.79	83.96	84.14	84.32	84.50	84.68	84.86	85.78	86.70	87.63	87.27	86.92	87.61	88.29	88.98	89.67
Tonga								99.30	99.32	99.33	99.34	99.35	99.37
Tunisia						96.40	96.88	97.36	97.84	98.13	98.17	98.21	98.24	97.97	97.29	96.61
Turkey						98.02	98.36	98.37	98.58	98.80	99.02	99.21	99.45	99.59	99.69	99.75	99.81
Uganda				85.96	86.28	86.61	86.94	87.27	87.86	88.45	89.04	89.64	87.70	85.76
Ukraine			99.78	99.79	99.81	99.83	99.84	99.86	99.87	99.89	99.91	99.92	99.94	99.96
United Arab Emirates							93.63
Uruguay								98.31	98.49	98.63	98.51	98.36	98.61	98.63	98.56	98.31	98.64
Uzbekistan		99.85	99.86	99.88	99.89	99.90	99.91	99.92	99.93	99.94	99.95	99.97	99.98	99.99	100.00	100.00	100.00
Venezuela			96.33	96.60	96.88	97.15	97.43	97.70	97.97	98.12	98.27	97.58	96.89	97.35	97.80	98.26	98.71	98.44
Vietnam	94.37	95.59	95.79	95.99	96.19	96.39	96.59	96.79	96.99	97.19	97.40
West Bank and Gaza						99.02	99.03	99.04	99.13	99.21	99.23	99.21	99.26	99.35	99.42	99.41	99.41	99.45
Zambia	72.62	74.32	76.02	77.73	76.24	74.76	73.28	71.79	70.31	77.27	84.23	91.20
Zimbabwe													89.59	88.92	88.26	87.59

Number of males aged 15 to 24 who can both read and write, with understanding, a short simple statement on their everyday life, divided by the male population in that age group. Generally, “literacy” also encompasses “numeracy” (i.e., the ability to make simple arithmetic calculations).

Source: UNESCO

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