Literacy Rate by Country - 190 Countries Compared 

Sources: 1. Adult literacy rate, population 15+ years (both sexes, female, male)". UIS Data Centre. UNESCO. 2. Adult literacy rate, population 15+ eyars, both sexes - UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) 3. Literacy - CIA World Factbook 4. Literacy rate, adult total (%of people ages 15 and above) - World Bank 5. Adult literacy rates - Our World in Data

All former soviet republics are above 99%. Truly amazing

Several years ago I was reading an article on national literacy rates. Several countries rated their citizens as literate if they could write their own names. While in the United States one is/was considered literate if one can read at a fourth grade level in English. I suspect that many of the high literacy rates are due to low standards.

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Most countries from the former soviet union prioritize high education. It was true then as it is now.

Being Uzbek person, I can proud of my country's people literary rate is 100%🎉

despite having almost 40 million population Uzbekistan has 100% literacy rate🇺🇿❤️

Some years ago, I did a paper comparing the literacy rates of countries to the rates with which people followed the most dominant religion. In short, "X" percentage of the population are literate, and "Y" percent of the population follow "Z" religion. I then compared the ratio of those percentages to the degree that folks in the Intel community regarded the nation as either unstable or as supporters of destabilizers elsewhere in the world. The higher the ratio of followers to the dominant religion to being literate, the higher the likelihood of the nation being a troublemaker country. It was almost a direct comparison.

Even wealthy countries can have some native tribes that don't have literacy as their culture focuses on spoken language. Also, some countries have higher refugees and immigrants from Africa and other low literacy places.

I was very happy when my country came out 😊❤🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿

Cuba and North Korea - 100% is true as everyone must follow their ruling parties' policy of 100% literacy, otherwise the parents and teachers face criminal charge.

I'm sorry, I missed four countries: Italy: 99.4% Moldova: 99.4% Tonga: 99.4%

I do not believe any country has 100% literacy. There are a small number of people with various degrees of mental retardation who will never learn to read. Also, there is a difference between being able to read and functional literacy. I have met many people who read, but do not understand what they just read. I see it more and more.

North Korea with 100% literacy rate?! Incredible

Fascinating! Some very troubling patterns too.

Very interesting and information

‏‪6:21‬‏ Wow, not only did they occupy an area that was not theirs, but they took their comfort there at the expense of the lives of the Palestinians and their lands.

The data for Brazil is out of date. New research carried out in 2022 says that the literacy rate in Brazil is 94.4%

I don’t believe that any country has 100%. I do believe that Cuba has a higher rate than the USA.

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Waw my country ranks second with 100 percent literacy ❤🇺🇿😜

Argentina adelante papá 🇦🇷😎

I wonder what "literacy" really means. in these statistics, does it mean being able to recognize "letter A to B?"or being able to understand something like most of their own constitution?. I know that's somewhere in between, but wonder around where?

countries ending with "stan" scored higher than Western countries😉

USSR did a great job educating the masses. Thats why Uzbekistan 🇺🇿 is 100% and so are the test of the union.

日本が99%？100%じゃないのか。信じられない。

Uzbekistan 😊

I’m not surprised America so far down the list. Politicians don’t want us to be smart.

Chad be like: Real Chads🗿don’t learn themselves, they teach others

Im from Finland 🇫🇮💜

I love content like this, though, some of my friends were doubting it and saying how is India lower than bangldesh in terms of literacy, idealy i did not notice it but now I saw, I wonder if it is because of population difference???🤨🤨🤨

who is today in 2023 do not go to school , i think in most of countries in the world all the population can read and write

I wonder if cold climates and areas with limited internet have any effects?

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Italy, Croatia??

I’m going to see finland

If the information given in this video is accurate, that means literacy rate does not correlate with a country's riches and the standard of living of its people.

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So strange, the top end could lead to debate, intelligence can even lead to wars if one looks at current countries involved at war.

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99.8% My Tajikistan 🇹🇯

In Algeria, education is free and. Compulsory for all Algerian kids from 5years old to 18 and studying at the University.is free too, so ,We are proud of our educational system ,but ,of course,we hope it will get better and better in the content, more than 90/100of Algerians. are. literate not81/100

North Korea, Slovakia, Norway, Luxemburg, Liechtenstein, Andorra, Uzbekistan and Finland be like:🍷🗿

I don't remember someone asking me if I was illiterate.

In most cases I think rating is based on read and write their names?

sinceramente mi lascia perplesso questa classifica... più che quanti si seggano sui banchi scolastici bisognerebbe sapere quanto apprendono: per fare un esempio in arabia saudita le donne hanno una conoscenza elementare e non oltre , e anche la classificazione della corea del nord mi pare esagerata... forse entrano a scuola, ma sapere quanti tagli di capalli permetta il buon kim non mi pare un insegnamento di vita utile

I'm Iranian and don't remember the last time I saw an illiterate citizen under 70. It's such a social disgrace not to have a high school diploma, let alone be a total illiterate. I don't know where this alleged %14 illiterate minority live. That's very weird.

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rewind the tape and it unravels.

A country's literacy is directly affected by its geographic location, tradition, culture, religion and demographics.

The question is it literacy rates high or low Isn't clear

3/4 of Malagasy people can speak and read ? I think it would be higher, due to a famous Malagasy singer called Anisha Jo

Uzbekistan🇺🇿 top 2 in the world

The literacy rate in Bangladesh was 75.6 per cent in 2022

Italy?

That's why I love Algeria it's 81.4 percent of books I'm so happy so please try to not bullying me if you are from Algeria or not from Algeria or even a supporter of Algeria

I'm from Belarus😎😎😎

I am slightly unhappy yet proud to say i am burmese

Who is behind these figures - The figures are totally different in THE WORLD BANK - which most professions relate to

Finland best

You missed Italy

I don't think this could ever be trues

7:46 Ireland 🇮🇪 ❤

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Italy¿¿ Where is Italy¿ I remember there was an Italy

Argentina aparece en el minuto 8:10 🧠

I'm from Indonesia. I'm so happy our literacy rate quite high our previous generation or heroes work really hard. But sadly many people in Indonesia not quite good with their reading comprehension and our Qur'an literacy only around 60%.

Somalia 🇸🇴 65 70 %😊

The nation of North Macedonia is actually at 92.2

Kazakhstan 99,8% 🇰🇿🇰🇿🇰🇿

Ussr be like : 🗿

this year 2023 the philippines has a 97% literacy rate

dudo mucho que venezuela este mucho mas arriba que colombioa pero es gringo las taradeses se le perdonan si quiera son cifras reales

Thailand 🇹🇭 4:34

The índice for Brazil is over estimated! North and Northeast retain the high índice of non literacy!

North Korea (Self Declared) LOL xD

Where's Kiribati?

Cuba 🇨🇺❤️

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Where is Italy?

Ok

Did anybody see albania?? Cause i couldnt see it. How much was it

Katsumotoland is 95%

新加坡居然不是100%

Chad 23% in 21 century. Omfg how???

Indonesia???

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Where is Moldova?

100% in Finland ? Not sure since they have broken all good relations with Russia.

99.8 AZERBAİJAN🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿

Chad 💀

Argentina HAD 99% literacy rate, TODAY is estimated in less than 84%

USSR -101%

North korea 100% 😂😂

Brasil é 94.6%

and the united states 🇺🇸

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