Sub-Saharan Africa Compared by Education > Literacy rate > Females aged 15-24
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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.".
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# | COUNTRY | AMOUNT | DATE | GRAPH | HISTORY |
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1 | Zimbabwe | 99.4 | 2008 | ||
2 | Seychelles | 99.37 | 2008 | ||
3 | Cape Verde | 98.9 | 2008 | ||
4 | Equatorial Guinea | 98.1 | 2008 | ||
5 | Lesotho | 98 | 2008 | ||
6 | South Africa | 97.5 | 2008 | ||
7 | Mauritius | 97.4 | 2008 | ||
8 | Gabon | 96.4 | 2008 | ||
9 | Botswana | 96.3 | 2008 | ||
10 | Sao Tome and Principe | 95.6 | 2008 | ||
11 | Namibia | 94.8 | 2008 | ||
12 | Swaziland | 94.7 | 2008 | ||
13 | Kenya | 92.9 | 2008 | ||
14 | Uganda | 85.5 | 2008 | ||
15 | Malawi | 85 | 2008 | ||
16 | Eritrea | 84.4 | 2008 | ||
17 | Comoros | 84.1 | 2008 | ||
18 | Cameroon | 83.5 | 2008 | ||
19 | Sudan | 81.7 | 2008 | ||
20 | Togo | 80 | 2008 | ||
21 | Liberia | 79.5 | 2008 | ||
22 | Ghana | 77.9 | 2008 | ||
23 | Rwanda | 77.1 | 2008 | ||
24 | Tanzania | 76.3 | 2008 | ||
25 | Burundi | 75.3 | 2008 | ||
26 | Madagascar | 68.19 | 2008 | ||
27 | Zambia | 67.5 | 2008 | ||
28 | Angola | 65.2 | 2008 | ||
29 | Nigeria | 64.6 | 2008 | ||
30 | Mauritania | 63.4 | 2008 | ||
31 | Mozambique | 62.1 | 2008 | ||
32 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 61.8 | 2008 | ||
33 | Guinea-Bissau | 61.6 | 2008 | ||
34 | Cote d'Ivoire | 60.1 | 2008 | ||
35 | The Gambia | 58.1 | 2008 | ||
36 | Central African Republic | 56.4 | 2008 | ||
37 | Guinea | 50.6 | 2008 | ||
38 | Sierra Leone | 45.9 | 2008 | ||
39 | Senegal | 44.54 | 2006 | ||
40 | Benin | 42.1 | 2008 | ||
41 | Ethiopia | 38.5 | 2008 | ||
42 | Chad | 37.2 | 2008 | ||
43 | Burkina Faso | 33.13 | 2007 | ||
44 | Mali | 30.8 | 2006 | ||
45 | Niger | 23.2 | 2005 |