Adult literacy rate, women in Libya

Adult literacy rate, women in Libya was 42.3% in 1984, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.

198442.3%

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Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics, Literacy rate, adult female, % of females ages 15 and above (SE.ADT.LITR.FE.ZS) via World Bank, World Development Indicators. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

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Libya compared with nearby places

Republic of the Congo: 49 %Costa Rica: 92.6 %Liberia: 19.3 %Libya: 42.3 %Tunisia: 35.8 %
  • Under 32
  • 32 to 40
  • 40 to 45
  • 45 to 58
  • 58 and over
  • No data
Adult literacy rate, women, 1984, %. Libya is outlined. Same source and period for every area shown. Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain).

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Definition

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.

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Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). Literacy rate, adult female, % of females ages 15 and above (SE.ADT.LITR.FE.ZS). Retrieved through World Bank World Development Indicators (data.worldbank.org). https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.ADT.LITR.FE.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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UNESCO Institute for Statistics. (2026). Literacy rate, adult female, % of females ages 15 and above (SE.ADT.LITR.FE.ZS) (Adult literacy rate, women, Libya, 1984) [Data set]. World Bank, World Development Indicators. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.ADT.LITR.FE.ZS

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Literacy rate, adult female, % of females ages 15 and above (SE.ADT.LITR.FE.ZS), Adult literacy rate, women, Libya, 1984. UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 8 Oct. 2026, https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.ADT.LITR.FE.ZS. World Bank, World Development Indicators, https://data.worldbank.org. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/en/adult-literacy-rate-women/libya. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

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UNESCO Institute for Statistics. 2026. Literacy rate, adult female, % of females ages 15 and above (SE.ADT.LITR.FE.ZS). Adult literacy rate, women, Libya, 1984. Dataset. Distributed by World Bank, World Development Indicators. Accessed October 12, 2026. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.ADT.LITR.FE.ZS. Also distributed by Invokely, https://invokely.ai/en/adult-literacy-rate-women/libya.

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UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2026) Literacy rate, adult female, % of females ages 15 and above (SE.ADT.LITR.FE.ZS), Adult literacy rate, women, Libya, 1984 [Dataset]. Via World Bank, World Development Indicators. Available at: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.ADT.LITR.FE.ZS, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/en/adult-literacy-rate-women/libya (Accessed: 12 October 2026).

BibTeX
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  author = {{UNESCO Institute for Statistics}},
  title = {{Literacy rate, adult female, \% of females ages 15 and above (SE.ADT.LITR.FE.ZS): Adult literacy rate, women, Libya, 1984}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {Data set},
  publisher = {World Bank, World Development Indicators},
  url = {https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.ADT.LITR.FE.ZS},
  urldate = {2026-10-12},
  note = {Retrieved through World Bank, World Development Indicators (https://data.worldbank.org). Accessed via Invokely, https://invokely.ai/en/adult-literacy-rate-women/libya. Publisher attribution: Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). Literacy rate, adult female, \% of females ages 15 and above (SE.ADT.LITR.FE.ZS). Retrieved through World Bank World Development Indicators (data.worldbank.org). https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.ADT.LITR.FE.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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