Youth literacy rate, ages 15 to 24
People aged 15 to 24 who can both read and write, with understanding, a short simple statement about their everyday life, as a percentage of the population aged 15 to 24. 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
- Youth literacy rate, ages 15 to 24 in the World was 93.1% in 2024, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
- Mauritius had the highest youth literacy rate, ages 15 to 24 of 58 countries in 2022, at 100%, and Niger the lowest, at 53.9%. Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
- Published for 173 places, with figures from 1970 to 2024.
Rankings
Countries by youth literacy rate, ages 15 to 24, 2022
Places with data
World, EU and euro area
Countries
- India
- China
- Indonesia
- Pakistan
- Nigeria
- Brazil
- Bangladesh
- Russia
- Ethiopia
- Mexico
- Laos
- Saint Lucia
- Lebanon
- Peru
- Afghanistan
- Uganda
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