Adult literacy rate, women
Women aged 15 and over who can both read and write, with understanding, a short simple statement about their everyday life, as a percentage of women 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.
Key facts
- Adult literacy rate, women in the World was 84.6% in 2024, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
- Armenia had the highest adult literacy rate, women of 58 countries in 2019, at 100%, and Chad the lowest, at 18.6%. Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
- Published for 172 places, with figures from 1970 to 2024.
Rankings
Countries by adult literacy rate, women, 2019
Places with data
World, EU and euro area
Countries
- India
- China
- Indonesia
- Pakistan
- Nigeria
- Brazil
- Bangladesh
- Russia
- Ethiopia
- Mexico
- Gabon
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Grenada
- Georgia
- Kenya
- Qatar
Use this data in your AI agent
Invokely serves this figure to AI assistants through MCP and to code through a REST API, with the source and citation attached. Ask your assistant:
Which places have the highest adult literacy rate, women? Use official data and cite it.
rank_places {"indicator":"literacy_rate_adult_female","level":"country"}
GET https://invokely.ai/api/v1/rank?indicator=literacy_rate_adult_female&level=country