# Countries by youth literacy rate, ages 15 to 24, 2022

All 58 values come from UNESCO Institute for Statistics for 2022, so the places are comparable. 114 countries have no value for that period and are not ranked.

- Indicator id: `literacy_rate_youth_15_24`
- Unit: %
- 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.
- Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics, Literacy rate, youth total, % of people ages 15-24 (SE.ADT.1524.LT.ZS) (https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.ADT.1524.LT.ZS)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/unesco-institute-for-statistics
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: 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.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/youth-literacy-rate/countries

| Rank | Place | % |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Mauritius | 100 |
| 1 | San Marino | 100 |
| 1 | Uzbekistan | 100 |
| 4 | Tuvalu | 100 |
| 5 | Turkmenistan | 99.9 |
| 6 | Philippines | 99.8 |
| 7 | Armenia | 99.8 |
| 8 | Serbia | 99.7 |
| 9 | Georgia | 99.7 |
| 9 | Mongolia | 99.7 |
| 11 | Oman | 99.7 |
| 11 | United Arab Emirates | 99.7 |
| 13 | Ecuador | 99.6 |
| 14 | Palestine | 99.4 |
| 15 | Brazil | 99.3 |
| 15 | Chile | 99.3 |
| 15 | Panama | 99.3 |
| 15 | Peru | 99.3 |
| 19 | Bahrain | 99.2 |
| 20 | Uruguay | 99.1 |
| 21 | Vietnam | 99.1 |
| 22 | Mexico | 98.9 |
| 23 | Colombia | 98.9 |
| 24 | Sri Lanka | 98.8 |
| 25 | Malaysia | 98.8 |
| 26 | Eswatini | 98.7 |
| 27 | Iran | 98.6 |
| 28 | Paraguay | 98.6 |
| 29 | Dominican Republic | 98.5 |
| 30 | El Salvador | 98.3 |
| 31 | Thailand | 98.2 |
| 32 | Bhutan | 97.7 |
| 33 | India | 96.5 |
| 34 | Belize | 96.2 |
| 35 | Honduras | 95.9 |
| 36 | Egypt | 95.2 |
| 37 | Guatemala | 95 |
| 38 | Laos | 93.8 |
| 39 | Indonesia | 93.8 |
| 40 | Jamaica | 93.6 |
| 41 | Bangladesh | 93.4 |
| 42 | Türkiye | 92.2 |
| 43 | Trinidad and Tobago | 92 |
| 44 | Papua New Guinea | 91.9 |
| 45 | Togo | 90.4 |
| 46 | Rwanda | 90 |
| 47 | Tanzania | 87.1 |
| 48 | Timor-Leste | 86.1 |
| 49 | Ethiopia | 84.7 |
| 50 | Zambia | 84.5 |
| 51 | Guinea-Bissau | 82.2 |
| 52 | Senegal | 75.3 |
| 53 | Mozambique | 71.4 |
| 54 | Benin | 71.3 |
| 55 | Somalia | 70.7 |
| 56 | Burkina Faso | 62.8 |
| 57 | Afghanistan | 62.7 |
| 58 | Niger | 53.9 |