# 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.

## 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.
- Figures last updated on 2026-10-12.

- Indicator id: `literacy_rate_youth_15_24`
- Unit: %
- Note: 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.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/en/youth-literacy-rate
- API: https://invokely.ai/api/v1/indicators/literacy_rate_youth_15_24

## Latest figures

| Place | Period | % | Source |
|---|---|---:|---|
| World | 2024 | 93.1 | Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). Literacy rate, youth total, % of people ages 15-24 (SE.ADT.1524.LT.ZS). Retrieved through World Bank World Development Indicators (data.worldbank.org). https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.ADT.1524.LT.ZS. Retrieved 2026-10-12. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. UIS does not endorse Invokely or this use of the data. |

## Rankings

- [Countries](https://invokely.ai/rankings/youth-literacy-rate/countries.md) (172 places)
- [EU countries](https://invokely.ai/rankings/youth-literacy-rate/eu-countries.md) (15 places)