# Adult literacy rate, men in Iran

Adult literacy rate, men in Iran was 92.8% in 2023. Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics.

- Indicator id: `literacy_rate_adult_male`
- Place id: `ir`
- Unit: %
- Definition: Men aged 15 and over who can both read and write, with understanding, a short simple statement about their everyday life, as a percentage of men aged 15 and over. UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
- Note: UIS figures from censuses, household surveys and UIS model estimates. Most high-income countries stopped measuring literacy decades ago, so they have no value; a missing value is not a rate of 0 or 100. Countries report in different years, so a ranking for one year covers only some countries.
- Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics, Literacy rate, adult male, % of males ages 15 and above (SE.ADT.LITR.MA.ZS) (https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.ADT.LITR.MA.ZS), via World Bank, World Development Indicators (https://data.worldbank.org)
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- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
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- Citation: Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). Literacy rate, adult male, % of males ages 15 and above (SE.ADT.LITR.MA.ZS). Retrieved through World Bank World Development Indicators (data.worldbank.org). https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.ADT.LITR.MA.ZS. Retrieved 2026-10-12. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. UIS does not endorse Invokely or this use of the data.
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| Period | % |
|---|---:|
| 2023 | 92.8 |
| 2022 | 92.5 |
| 2021 | 92.4 |
| 2020 | 92 |
| 2019 | 91.6 |
| 2018 | 91.2 |
| 2017 | 90.5 |
| 2016 | 90.3 |
| 2015 | 90.1 |
| 2014 | 89.6 |
| 2013 | 89.5 |
| 2012 | 88.9 |
| 2011 | 88.1 |
| 2010 | 88.8 |
| 2009 | 88.3 |
| 2008 | 88.2 |
| 2006 | 87.3 |
| 2005 | 88 |
| 2002 | 83.5 |
| 1996 | 79.9 |
| 1991 | 74.3 |
| 1986 | 63.1 |
| 1976 | 48.2 |