Sub-Saharan Africa Compared by Education > Adult literacy rate > Female
DEFINITION:
Adult literacy rate is the percentage of people ages 15 and above who can, with understanding, read and write a short, simple statement on their everyday life.".
CONTENTS
# | COUNTRY | AMOUNT | DATE | GRAPH | HISTORY |
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1 | Lesotho | 95.1 | 2008 | ||
2 | Seychelles | 92.26 | 2008 | ||
3 | Equatorial Guinea | 89.1 | 2008 | ||
4 | Zimbabwe | 88.8 | 2008 | ||
5 | South Africa | 88.1 | 2008 | ||
6 | Namibia | 87.7 | 2008 | ||
7 | Swaziland | 85.6 | 2008 | ||
8 | Mauritius | 84.8 | 2008 | ||
9 | Botswana | 83.5 | 2008 | ||
10 | Sao Tome and Principe | 83.3 | 2008 | ||
11 | Gabon | 83.2 | 2008 | ||
12 | Kenya | 82.8 | 2008 | ||
13 | Cape Verde | 79.3 | 2008 | ||
=14 | Cameroon | 67.8 | 2008 | ||
=14 | Comoros | 67.8 | 2008 | ||
16 | Uganda | 66.8 | 2008 | ||
17 | Tanzania | 66.3 | 2008 | ||
18 | Rwanda | 66.1 | 2008 | ||
19 | Malawi | 65.8 | 2008 | ||
20 | Madagascar | 65.26 | 2008 | ||
21 | Zambia | 61 | 2008 | ||
22 | Burundi | 59.9 | 2008 | ||
23 | Sudan | 59.6 | 2008 | ||
24 | Ghana | 59.3 | 2008 | ||
25 | Angola | 57 | 2008 | ||
26 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 56.1 | 2008 | ||
27 | Eritrea | 54.5 | 2008 | ||
28 | Togo | 53.7 | 2008 | ||
29 | Liberia | 53 | 2008 | ||
30 | Mauritania | 49.5 | 2008 | ||
31 | Nigeria | 48.8 | 2008 | ||
32 | Cote d'Ivoire | 44.3 | 2008 | ||
33 | Central African Republic | 41.1 | 2008 | ||
34 | Mozambique | 40.1 | 2008 | ||
35 | Guinea-Bissau | 36.5 | 2008 | ||
36 | The Gambia | 34.3 | 2008 | ||
37 | Senegal | 32.99 | 2006 | ||
38 | Sierra Leone | 28.9 | 2008 | ||
39 | Benin | 28.1 | 2008 | ||
40 | Guinea | 26.4 | 2008 | ||
41 | Ethiopia | 22.8 | 2008 | ||
42 | Chad | 21.9 | 2008 | ||
43 | Burkina Faso | 21.58 | 2007 | ||
44 | Mali | 18.19 | 2006 | ||
45 | Niger | 15.08 | 2005 |