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Adult literacy rate in Venezuela

Adult literacy rate in Venezuela was 97.2% in 2017, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics. That is up 0.1 pts from 2016.

201797.2%
Change on 2016+0.1 pts
Series high97.22017
Series low84.71981

Adult literacy rate in Venezuela, 1981 to 2017

82.58587.59092.59597.519812001200620082010201220171981: 84.7 %1990: 89.8 %2001: 93 %2005: 94.4 %2006: 94.7 %2007: 95.2 %2008: 95.3 %2009: 95.5 %2010: 95.4 %2011: 94.8 %2012: 96 %2015: 96.6 %2016: 97.1 %2017: 97.2 %
%. Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics, Literacy rate, adult total, % of people ages 15 and above (SE.ADT.LITR.ZS) via World Bank, World Development Indicators. Retrieved 2026-10-12, published 2026-10-08.
All 14 values
Period%
201797.2
201697.1
201596.6
201296
201194.8
201095.4
200995.5
200895.3
200795.2
200694.7
200594.4
200193
199089.8
198184.7

Rankings

Definition

People aged 15 and over who can both read and write, with understanding, a short simple statement about their everyday life, as a percentage of the population 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 total, % of people ages 15 and above (SE.ADT.LITR.ZS). Retrieved through World Bank World Development Indicators (data.worldbank.org). https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.ADT.LITR.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 in Venezuela?

Adult literacy rate in Venezuela was 97.2% in 2017, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics. That is up 0.1 pts from 2016.

Where does this figure come from?

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

What was the highest adult literacy rate in Venezuela?

97.2% in 2017, the highest value since 1981 in this series.

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