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Education Statistics > Literacy > total population (most recent) by country > Top 100

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Rank   Countries  Amount  Date  
= 1     Georgia: 100 %   2004 Time series
= 1     Luxembourg: 100 %   2000 Time series
= 1     Andorra: 100 %   2008 Time series
= 1     Finland: 100 %   2000 Time series
= 1     Greenland: 100 %   2001 Time series
= 1     Norway: 100 %   2008 Time series
= 1     Liechtenstein: 100 %   2008 Time series
= 1     Holy See (Vatican City): 100 %   2008 Time series
= 9     Poland: 99.8 %   2003 Time series
= 9     Latvia: 99.8 %   2003 Time series
= 9     Estonia: 99.8 %   2003 Time series
= 12     Barbados: 99.7 %   2002 Time series
= 12     Samoa: 99.7 %   2003 Time series
= 12     Ukraine: 99.7 %   2003 Time series
= 12     Slovenia: 99.7 %   2008 Time series
= 16     Belarus: 99.6 %   2003 Time series
= 16     Lithuania: 99.6 %   2003 Time series
= 16     Slovakia: 99.6 %   2004 Time series
= 16     Russia: 99.6 %   2003 Time series
# 20     Kazakhstan: 99.5 %   1999 Time series
= 21     Hungary: 99.4 %   2003 Time series
= 21     Tajikistan: 99.4 %   2003 Time series
# 23     Uzbekistan: 99.3 %   2003 Time series
= 24     Moldova: 99.1 %   2005 Time series
= 24     Mongolia: 99.1 %   2003 Time series
= 26     Netherlands: 99 %   2003 Time series
= 26     Guam: 99 %   1990 Time series
= 26     New Zealand: 99 %   2003 Time series
= 26     Iceland: 99 %   2003 Time series
= 26     United States: 99 %   2003 Time series
= 26     Japan: 99 %   2002 Time series
= 26     Saint Pierre and Miquelon: 99 %   1982 Time series
= 26     Korea, North: 99 %   2008 Time series
= 26     Switzerland: 99 %   2003 Time series
= 26     Ireland: 99 %   2003 Time series
= 26     Belgium: 99 %   2003 Time series
= 26     Czech Republic: 99 %   2003 Time series
= 26     Denmark: 99 %   2003 Time series
= 26     France: 99 %   2003 Time series
= 26     Monaco: 99 %   2003 Time series
= 26     Germany: 99 %   2003 Time series
= 26     Sweden: 99 %   2003 Time series
= 26     Australia: 99 %   2003 Time series
= 26     United Kingdom: 99 %   2003 Time series
= 26     Canada: 99 %   2003 Time series
# 46     Tonga: 98.9 %   1999 Time series
= 47     Azerbaijan: 98.8 %   2003 Time series
= 47     Guyana: 98.8 %   2003 Time series
= 47     Turkmenistan: 98.8 %   1999 Time series
# 50     Kyrgyzstan: 98.7 %   1999 Time series
= 51     Trinidad and Tobago: 98.6 %   2003 Time series
= 51     Armenia: 98.6 %   2003 Time series
= 51     Italy: 98.6 %   2003 Time series
= 51     Bulgaria: 98.6 %   2003 Time series
# 55     Croatia: 98.5 %   2003 Time series
# 56     Romania: 98.4 %   2003 Time series
# 57     Korea, South: 98.1 %   2003 Time series
= 58     Cayman Islands: 98 %   1970 Time series
= 58     French Polynesia: 98 %   1977 Time series
= 58     Bermuda: 98 %   2005 Time series
= 58     Austria: 98 %   2008 Time series
= 58     Turks and Caicos Islands: 98 %   1970 Time series
= 58     Uruguay: 98 %   2003 Time series
# 64     Spain: 97.9 %   2003 Time series
= 65     Saint Kitts and Nevis: 97.8 %   2003 Time series
= 65     British Virgin Islands: 97.8 %   1991 Time series
# 67     Martinique: 97.7 %   2003 Time series
# 68     Cyprus: 97.6 %   2003 Time series
# 69     Greece: 97.5 %   2003 Time series
# 70     Aruba: 97.3 %   2000 Time series
= 71     Israel: 97.1 %   2004 Time series
= 71     Argentina: 97.1 %   2003 Time series
= 73     Montserrat: 97 %   1970 Time series
= 73     American Samoa: 97 %   1980 Time series
= 73     Cuba: 97 %   2003 Time series
= 73     Northern Mariana Islands: 97 %   1980 Time series
= 77     Bosnia and Herzegovina: 96.7 %   2000 Time series
= 77     Netherlands Antilles: 96.7 %   2003 Time series
# 79     Serbia and Montenegro: 96.4 %   2003 Time series
= 80     Chile: 96.2 %   2003 Time series
= 80     New Caledonia: 96.2 %   1996 Time series
= 82     Taiwan: 96.1 %   2003 Time series
= 82     Macedonia, Republic of: 96.1 %   2002 Time series
= 84     San Marino: 96 %   0000-00-00 Time series
= 84     Grenada: 96 %   2003 Time series
= 84     Costa Rica: 96 %   2003 Time series
= 84     Thailand: 96 %   2003 Time series
= 84     Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: 96 %   1970 Time series
# 89     Philippines: 95.9 %   2003 Time series
# 90     Bahamas, The: 95.6 %   2003 Time series
= 91     Cook Islands: 95 %   2010 Time series
= 91     Anguilla: 95 %   1984 Time series
= 91     Niue: 95 %   2008 Time series
# 94     Macau: 94.5 %   2003 Time series
= 95     Puerto Rico: 94.1 %   2002 Time series
= 95     Belize: 94.1 %   2003 Time series
= 97     Dominica: 94 %   2003 Time series
= 97     Hong Kong: 94 %   2003 Time series
= 97     Paraguay: 94 %   2003 Time series
= 97     Vietnam: 94 %   2003 Time series
Weighted average: 98.0 %  

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DEFINITION: This entry includes a definition of literacy and Census Bureau percentages for the total population, males, and females. There are no universal definitions and standards of literacy. Unless otherwise specified, all rates are based on the most common definition - the ability to read and write at a specified age. Detailing the standards that individual countries use to assess the ability to read and write is beyond the scope of our source. Information on literacy, while not a perfect measure of educational results, is probably the most easily available and valid for international comparisons.

SOURCE: CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 28 March 2011

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"Literacy > total population by country", CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 28 March 2011. Retrieved from http://www.NationMaster.com/red/graph/edu_lit_tot_pop-education-literacy-total-population&int=100

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COMMENTARY     

GetaClue
20th August 2011 		This is what countries report. It's is bogus!!
This is what a country will report, come on you believe China's population
has a literacy of 91.6 %. Hundreds of millions of people live in the back country, working the mines and rice fields, completely oblivious to any city learning. Most ALL of these countries report false numbers fro one reason or another.
Does anyone here really believe Georgia has 100% literacy in that country.
vcon
4th January 2011 		POj ev
Dana
4th December 2010 		Stop being so critical of this data, it's from the World Fact Book and it is correct in a sense. As stated in the article, literacy doesn't have a universal definition and if you study individual states and countries, especially industrialized ones, they often have a higher literacy rate reported for worldwide statistics than they do at home. That is because functional literacy is taken into account on a national basis. Just about anyone can read "See Spot Run" but not everyone can read an instruction manual or documents required for day to day life. In reporting internationally, if you can handle see spot run, you're literate.

Before criticizing data perhaps it would be best to understand its origins.
nashirkertosono
25th September 2010 		Indonesia,the best.......
TrueSalarian
9th August 2010 		This website offers simplified data derived from the World Values Survey. For more detailed/accurate information go to www.worldvaluessurvey.org. If you are dissatisfied with this wesite's data, look around in there & you may find what your'e looking for. The WVS is more accurate than many other sources from which you would receive information. They actually do surveys & give contextual data, such as a comparison of literacy rate over a period of time.
Luvagoo
11th June 2010 		I just wanted the Australian figures - I have France's from a good source and they sure as hell aren't 99%.
fish
20th May 2010 		I don't believe that 10 countries could be beating Australia. Where did you get your figures from ? Or did you make them up?
Tianna
18th February 2010 		I am doing a report on Poland and this site did not help at all.
B. Cooley
21st December 2009 		These are not accurate, they can't be. In my State alone there is a 15% illiteracy rate as of just a few years ago, that's not even to compound the states around mine. The US does not have a 99% literacy.
Derek McLaren
5th May 2009 		Try putting info on it not just the ranks im doing a project and this site did not do me much good so thanks for the Help
M. Saunders
11th January 2006 		From below 80% in 1986 to 97% for the U.S. now is a totally false figure and consequently invalidates all other stats in this database!
Edria Murray
Staff Editor
18th January 2005 		Over fifty years ago the United nations included literacy as a basic human right along with the right to adequate food, health care, and housing. According to UNESCO global literacy rates have increased dramatically over the last 35 years. However even today UNESCO statistics indicate that there are still over 800 million illiterate adults worldwide.

Literacy is seldom universal across the whole population. In developing nations the literacy rate of males is significantly higher than that of females. To gain a balanced perspective when comparing countries, literacy definitions should be consulted as these vary between countries.

The very high literacy rates in industrialized countries are misleading, as many adults in these countries have low levels of literacy. The International Adult literacy survey (1998) of OECD countries concluded that 23% of adults had 'very poor' skills. And a further 27% had a 'weak' skills. Both of these groups are defined as having a ”'low level of literacy'
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