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Education Statistics > Literacy rate, youth total > % of people ages 15-24 (2006) by country

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Rank   Countries  Amount  Date  
# 1     Cuba: 99.96 %   2006 Time series
# 2     Azerbaijan: 99.89 %   2006 Time series
# 3     Kazakhstan: 99.85 %   2006 Time series
# 4     Tajikistan: 99.85 %   2006 Time series
# 5     Turkmenistan: 99.81 %   2006 Time series
# 6     Armenia: 99.81 %   2006 Time series
# 7     Italy: 99.81 %   2006 Time series
# 8     Ukraine: 99.8 %   2006 Time series
# 9     Bosnia and Herzegovina: 99.79 %   2006 Time series
# 10     Belarus: 99.79 %   2006 Time series
# 11     Israel: 99.78 %   2006 Time series
# 12     Cyprus: 99.77 %   2006 Time series
# 13     Estonia: 99.77 %   2006 Time series
# 14     Latvia: 99.75 %   2006 Time series
# 15     Kuwait: 99.73 %   2006 Time series
# 16     Russia: 99.72 %   2006 Time series
# 17     Lithuania: 99.7 %   2006 Time series
# 18     Kyrgyzstan: 99.7 %   2006 Time series
# 19     Croatia: 99.65 %   2006 Time series
# 20     Macau: 99.63 %   2006 Time series
# 21     Slovakia: 99.62 %   2006 Time series
# 22     Moldova: 99.52 %   2006 Time series
# 23     Singapore: 99.5 %   2006 Time series
# 24     Albania: 99.44 %   2006 Time series
# 25     Serbia and Montenegro: 99.36 %   2006 Time series
# 26     Tonga: 99.31 %   2006 Time series
# 27     Jordan: 99.13 %   2006 Time series
# 28     Seychelles: 99.06 %   2006 Time series
# 29     Aruba: 99.03 %   2006 Time series
# 30     Chile: 98.99 %   2006 Time series
# 31     Greece: 98.94 %   2006 Time series
# 32     Argentina: 98.92 %   2006 Time series
# 33     Brunei: 98.89 %   2006 Time series
# 34     China: 98.86 %   2006 Time series
# 35     Macedonia, Republic of: 98.74 %   2006 Time series
# 36     Indonesia: 98.71 %   2006 Time series
# 37     Bulgaria: 98.21 %   2006 Time series
# 38     Maldives: 98.17 %   2006 Time series
# 39     Colombia: 97.99 %   2006 Time series
# 40     Thailand: 97.98 %   2006 Time series
# 41     Romania: 97.76 %   2006 Time series
# 42     Mongolia: 97.71 %   2006 Time series
# 43     Costa Rica: 97.61 %   2006 Time series
# 44     Mexico: 97.56 %   2006 Time series
# 45     Bolivia: 97.32 %   2006 Time series
# 46     Oman: 97.28 %   2006 Time series
# 47     Malaysia: 97.24 %   2006 Time series
# 48     Venezuela: 97.2 %   2006 Time series
# 49     Bahrain: 97.02 %   2006 Time series
# 50     Brazil: 96.84 %   2006 Time series
# 51     Peru: 96.76 %   2006 Time series
# 52     Ecuador: 96.44 %   2006 Time series
# 53     Panama: 96.08 %   2006 Time series
# 54     Malta: 96.03 %   2006 Time series
# 55     Qatar: 95.92 %   2006 Time series
# 56     Saudi Arabia: 95.91 %   2006 Time series
# 57     Turkey: 95.6 %   2006 Time series
# 58     Sri Lanka: 95.59 %   2006 Time series
# 59     Philippines: 95.09 %   2006 Time series
# 60     Suriname: 94.88 %   2006 Time series
# 61     Equatorial Guinea: 94.86 %   2006 Time series
# 62     Mauritius: 94.54 %   2006 Time series
# 63     Burma: 94.52 %   2006 Time series
# 64     Tunisia: 94.34 %   2006 Time series
# 65     Dominican Republic: 94.22 %   2006 Time series
# 66     Botswana: 93.96 %   2006 Time series
# 67     South Africa: 93.91 %   2006 Time series
# 68     Vietnam: 93.88 %   2006 Time series
# 69     Namibia: 92.34 %   2006 Time series
# 70     Syria: 92.22 %   2006 Time series
# 71     Algeria: 90.14 %   2006 Time series
# 72     Honduras: 88.94 %   2006 Time series
# 73     Swaziland: 88.42 %   2006 Time series
# 74     Nicaragua: 86.22 %   2006 Time series
# 75     Egypt: 84.93 %   2006 Time series
# 76     Iraq: 84.8 %   2006 Time series
# 77     Cambodia: 83.38 %   2006 Time series
# 78     Guatemala: 82.22 %   2006 Time series
# 79     Kenya: 80.32 %   2006 Time series
# 80     Laos: 78.46 %   2006 Time series
# 81     Tanzania: 78.4 %   2006 Time series
# 82     Rwanda: 77.63 %   2006 Time series
# 83     Sudan: 77.18 %   2006 Time series
# 84     Uganda: 76.64 %   2006 Time series
# 85     India: 76.43 %   2006 Time series
# 86     Malawi: 76.01 %   2006 Time series
# 87     Togo: 74.37 %   2006 Time series
# 88     Burundi: 73.33 %   2006 Time series
# 89     Angola: 72.18 %   2006 Time series
# 90     Ghana: 70.66 %   2006 Time series
# 91     Morocco: 70.46 %   2006 Time series
# 92     Congo, Democratic Republic of the: 70.42 %   2006 Time series
# 93     Madagascar: 70.24 %   2006 Time series
# 94     Nepal: 70.05 %   2006 Time series
# 95     Zambia: 69.46 %   2006 Time series
# 96     Papua New Guinea: 66.68 %   2006 Time series
# 97     Pakistan: 65.5 %   2006 Time series
# 98     Mauritania: 61.34 %   2006 Time series
# 99     Côte d'Ivoire: 60.72 %   2006 Time series
# 100     Central African Republic: 58.52 %   2006 Time series
# 101     Senegal: 49.12 %   2006 Time series
# 102     Sierra Leone: 47.56 %   2006 Time series
# 103     Guinea: 46.55 %   2006 Time series
# 104     Benin: 45.31 %   2006 Time series
# 105     Chad: 37.56 %   2006 Time series
# 106     Niger: 36.55 %   2006 Time series
# 107     Afghanistan: 34.31 %   2006 Time series
# 108     Burkina Faso: 31.23 %   2006 Time series
# 109     Mali: 24.19 %   2006 Time series
Weighted average: 86.8 %  


DEFINITION: Youth literacy rate is the percentage of people ages 15-24 who can, with understanding, read and write a short, simple statement on their everyday life.

SOURCE: World Development Indicators database

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"Literacy rate, youth total > % of people ages 15-24 (2006) by country", World Development Indicators database. Retrieved from http://www.NationMaster.com/graph/edu_lit_rat_you_tot_of_peo_age_1524-total-people-ages-15-24&date=2006

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