Adult literacy rate

Ranked among 30 profiles with 2024 data. Status, source, and year are named on each row. Taiwan and Kosovo remain special status in this list.

Unit: percent of population ages 15+. Preferred source: unesco-uis.

Rank	Profile	Status	2024 value
1	Georgia	UN member	99.7% actual
2	Qatar	UN member	99.3% actual
3	Uruguay	UN member	98.9% actual
4	United Arab Emirates	UN member	98.8% actual
5	Mongolia	UN member	98.6% actual
6	Palestine	UN observer	97.9% actual
7	Saudi Arabia	UN member	97.9% actual
8	Bahrain	UN member	97.8% actual
9	Bolivia	UN member	96.7% actual
10	Panama	UN member	96.2% actual
11	Mexico	UN member	95.6% actual
12	Colombia	UN member	95.3% actual
13	Paraguay	UN member	94.9% actual
14	Brazil	UN member	94.7% actual
15	Jordan	UN member	94.4% actual
16	Dominican Republic	UN member	94% actual
17	Peru	UN member	93.7% actual
18	Ecuador	UN member	93.5% actual
19	Sri Lanka	UN member	92.7% actual
20	South Africa	UN member	91.2% actual
21	Lesotho	UN member	90.4% actual
22	El Salvador	UN member	89.8% actual
23	Cabo Verde	UN member	88.5% actual
24	Honduras	UN member	88.3% actual
25	Guatemala	UN member	82.1% actual
26	India	UN member	78.2% actual
27	Uganda	UN member	77% actual
28	Zambia	UN member	71.8% actual
29	Nigeria	UN member	70.4% actual
30	Mali	UN member	35.6% actual

No 2024 figure

These profiles are not ranked for this year. Absence is not zero.

Afghanistan UN member
Åland Islands Statistical area
Albania UN member
Algeria UN member
American Samoa Territory
Andorra UN member
Angola UN member
Anguilla Dependency
Antigua and Barbuda UN member
Argentina UN member
Armenia UN member
Aruba Dependency
Australia UN member
Austria UN member
Azerbaijan UN member
Bahamas UN member
Bangladesh UN member
Barbados UN member
Belarus UN member
Belgium UN member
Belize UN member
Benin UN member
Bermuda Dependency
Bhutan UN member
Bosnia and Herzegovina UN member
Botswana UN member
British Virgin Islands Dependency
Brunei UN member
Bulgaria UN member
Burkina Faso UN member
Burundi UN member
Cambodia UN member
Cameroon UN member
Canada UN member
Caribbean Netherlands Territory
Cayman Islands Dependency
Central African Republic UN member
Chad UN member
Chile UN member
China UN member
Christmas Island Territory
Cocos Islands Territory
Comoros UN member
Cook Islands Associated state
Costa Rica UN member
Côte d’Ivoire UN member
Croatia UN member
Cuba UN member
Curaçao Dependency
Cyprus UN member
Czechia UN member
Democratic Republic of the Congo UN member
Denmark UN member
Djibouti UN member
Dominica UN member
Egypt UN member
Equatorial Guinea UN member
Eritrea UN member
Estonia UN member
Eswatini UN member
Ethiopia UN member
Falkland Islands Dependency
Faroe Islands Dependency
Fiji UN member
Finland UN member
France UN member
French Guiana Territory
French Polynesia Dependency
Gabon UN member
Gambia UN member
Germany UN member
Ghana UN member
Gibraltar Dependency
Greece UN member
Greenland Dependency
Grenada UN member
Guadeloupe Territory
Guam Territory
Guernsey Dependency
Guinea UN member
Guinea-Bissau UN member
Guyana UN member
Haiti UN member
Holy See UN observer
Hong Kong Special administrative region
Hungary UN member
Iceland UN member
Indonesia UN member
Iran UN member
Iraq UN member
Ireland UN member
Isle of Man Dependency
Israel UN member
Italy UN member
Jamaica UN member
Japan UN member
Jersey Dependency
Kazakhstan UN member
Kenya UN member
Kiribati UN member
Kosovo Special status
Kuwait UN member
Kyrgyzstan UN member
Laos UN member
Latvia UN member
Lebanon UN member
Liberia UN member
Libya UN member
Liechtenstein UN member
Lithuania UN member
Luxembourg UN member
Macau Special administrative region
Madagascar UN member
Malawi UN member
Malaysia UN member
Maldives UN member
Malta UN member
Marshall Islands UN member
Martinique Territory
Mauritania UN member
Mauritius UN member
Mayotte Territory
Micronesia UN member
Moldova UN member
Monaco UN member
Montenegro UN member
Montserrat Dependency
Morocco UN member
Mozambique UN member
Myanmar UN member
Namibia UN member
Nauru UN member
Nepal UN member
Netherlands UN member
New Caledonia Dependency
New Zealand UN member
Nicaragua UN member
Niger UN member
Niue Associated state
Norfolk Island Territory
North Korea UN member
North Macedonia UN member
Northern Mariana Islands Territory
Norway UN member
Oman UN member
Pakistan UN member
Palau UN member
Papua New Guinea UN member
Philippines UN member
Poland UN member
Portugal UN member
Puerto Rico Territory
Republic of the Congo UN member
Réunion Territory
Romania UN member
Russia UN member
Rwanda UN member
Saint Barthélemy Dependency
Saint Helena Dependency
Saint Kitts and Nevis UN member
Saint Lucia UN member
Saint Martin Dependency
Saint Pierre and Miquelon Dependency
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines UN member
Samoa UN member
San Marino UN member
Sao Tome and Principe UN member
Senegal UN member
Serbia UN member
Seychelles UN member
Sierra Leone UN member
Singapore UN member
Sint Maarten Dependency
Slovakia UN member
Slovenia UN member
Solomon Islands UN member
Somalia UN member
South Korea UN member
South Sudan UN member
Spain UN member
Sudan UN member
Suriname UN member
Sweden UN member
Switzerland UN member
Syria UN member
Taiwan Special status
Tajikistan UN member
Tanzania UN member
Thailand UN member
Timor-Leste UN member
Togo UN member
Tokelau Territory
Tonga UN member
Trinidad and Tobago UN member
Tunisia UN member
Türkiye UN member
Turkmenistan UN member
Turks and Caicos Islands Dependency
Tuvalu UN member
Ukraine UN member
United Kingdom UN member
United States UN member
U.S. Virgin Islands Territory
Uzbekistan UN member
Vanuatu UN member
Venezuela UN member
Vietnam UN member
Wallis and Futuna Dependency
Western Sahara Special status
Yemen UN member
Zimbabwe UN member