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Adult literacy rate, men in World

Adult literacy rate, men in the World was 90.9% in 2024, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics. That is up 0.1 pts from 2023.

202490.9%
Change on 2023+0.1 pts
Series high90.92024
Series low74.41975

Adult literacy rate, men in World, 1975 to 2024

70758085909519751983199119992007201520241975: 74.4 %1976: 74.5 %1977: 74.8 %1978: 75.3 %1979: 75.8 %1980: 76.2 %1981: 76.7 %1982: 77.1 %1983: 77.5 %1984: 78 %1985: 78.4 %1986: 78.8 %1987: 79.3 %1988: 80.6 %1989: 81 %1990: 81.4 %1991: 81.7 %1992: 82.1 %1993: 82.5 %1994: 82.9 %1995: 83.2 %1996: 83.5 %1997: 84.7 %1998: 86 %1999: 86.2 %2000: 86.4 %2001: 86.6 %2002: 86.9 %2003: 87.3 %2004: 87.6 %2005: 87.7 %2006: 87.5 %2007: 87.8 %2008: 88.1 %2009: 88.3 %2010: 88.6 %2011: 88.9 %2012: 89 %2013: 89.3 %2014: 89.4 %2015: 89.8 %2016: 90 %2017: 90.1 %2018: 90.3 %2019: 90.3 %2020: 90.4 %2021: 90.5 %2022: 90.7 %2023: 90.8 %2024: 90.9 %
%. Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics, Literacy rate, adult male, % of males ages 15 and above (SE.ADT.LITR.MA.ZS) via World Bank, World Development Indicators. Retrieved 2026-10-12, published 2026-10-08.
All 50 values
Period%
202490.9
202390.8
202290.7
202190.5
202090.4
201990.3
201890.3
201790.1
201690
201589.8
201489.4
201389.3
201289
201188.9
201088.6
200988.3
200888.1
200787.8
200687.5
200587.7
200487.6
200387.3
200286.9
200186.6
200086.4
199986.2
199886
199784.7
199683.5
199583.2
199482.9
199382.5
199282.1
199181.7
199081.4
198981
198880.6
198779.3
198678.8
198578.4
198478
198377.5
198277.1
198176.7
198076.2
197975.8
197875.3
197774.8
197674.5
197574.4

Rankings

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.

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.

How to cite

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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What is the adult literacy rate, men in World?

Adult literacy rate, men in the World was 90.9% in 2024, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics. That is up 0.1 pts from 2023.

Where does this figure come from?

UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Literacy rate, adult male, % of males ages 15 and above (SE.ADT.LITR.MA.ZS). Retrieved by Invokely on 2026-10-12.

What was the highest adult literacy rate, men in World?

90.9% in 2024, the highest value since 1975 in this series.

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