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Youth literacy rate, ages 15 to 24 in South Sudan

Youth literacy rate, ages 15 to 24 in South Sudan was 36.7% in 2008, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.

200836.7%

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Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics, Literacy rate, youth total, % of people ages 15-24 (SE.ADT.1524.LT.ZS) via World Bank, World Development Indicators. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

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200836.7

South Sudan compared with nearby places

Albania: 98.8 %Burundi: 61.7 %Bolivia: 99.1 %Brazil: 97.8 %Colombia: 98 %Dominican Republic: 96.6 %Algeria: 93.8 %Ecuador: 98.4 %Eritrea: 87 %Spain: 99.6 %Indonesia: 99.5 %Iran: 97.9 %Cambodia: 87.5 %North Korea: 100 %South Korea: 99.9 %Kuwait: 98.6 %Sri Lanka: 98 %Morocco: 77.9 %Mexico: 98.4 %Nigeria: 66.8 %Nepal: 82.3 %Oman: 97.6 %Peru: 97.8 %Philippines: 97.8 %Pakistan: 71.1 %Palestine: 99.2 %Paraguay: 98 %Qatar: 95.7 %Sudan: 65.8 %Sierra Leone: 58.4 %Suriname: 99.4 %South Sudan: 36.7 %El Salvador: 96 %Tunisia: 96.8 %Uruguay: 99 %Venezuela: 98.5 %
  • Under 77
  • 77 to 96
  • 96 to 98
  • 98 to 99
  • 99 and over
  • No data
Youth literacy rate, ages 15 to 24, 2008, %. South Sudan 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

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.

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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.

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UNESCO Institute for Statistics. (2026). Literacy rate, youth total, % of people ages 15-24 (SE.ADT.1524.LT.ZS) (Youth literacy rate, ages 15 to 24, South Sudan, 2008) [Data set]. World Bank, World Development Indicators. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.ADT.1524.LT.ZS

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Literacy rate, youth total, % of people ages 15-24 (SE.ADT.1524.LT.ZS), Youth literacy rate, ages 15 to 24, South Sudan, 2008. UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 8 Oct. 2026, https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.ADT.1524.LT.ZS. World Bank, World Development Indicators, https://data.worldbank.org. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/en/youth-literacy-rate/south-sudan. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

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UNESCO Institute for Statistics. 2026. Literacy rate, youth total, % of people ages 15-24 (SE.ADT.1524.LT.ZS). Youth literacy rate, ages 15 to 24, South Sudan, 2008. Dataset. Distributed by World Bank, World Development Indicators. Accessed October 12, 2026. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.ADT.1524.LT.ZS. Also distributed by Invokely, https://invokely.ai/en/youth-literacy-rate/south-sudan.

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UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2026) Literacy rate, youth total, % of people ages 15-24 (SE.ADT.1524.LT.ZS), Youth literacy rate, ages 15 to 24, South Sudan, 2008 [Dataset]. Via World Bank, World Development Indicators. Available at: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.ADT.1524.LT.ZS, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/en/youth-literacy-rate/south-sudan (Accessed: 12 October 2026).

BibTeX
@misc{unesco_youth_literacy_rate_ages_2008,
  author = {{UNESCO Institute for Statistics}},
  title = {{Literacy rate, youth total, \% of people ages 15-24 (SE.ADT.1524.LT.ZS): Youth literacy rate, ages 15 to 24, South Sudan, 2008}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {Data set},
  publisher = {World Bank, World Development Indicators},
  url = {https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.ADT.1524.LT.ZS},
  urldate = {2026-10-12},
  note = {Retrieved through World Bank, World Development Indicators (https://data.worldbank.org). Accessed via Invokely, https://invokely.ai/en/youth-literacy-rate/south-sudan. Publisher attribution: 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.},
}
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