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* {{note|aa8|aa|8}} Data refer to North Sudan only.
* {{note|aa8|aa|8}} Data refer to North Sudan only.
* {{note|ab9|ab|9}} UNDP 2007.
* {{note|ab9|ab|9}} UNDP 2007.
* {{note|p10|p|10}} Calculation made based on literacy rates of 92.7% for the West Bank and 94.3% for the Gaza Strip<ref>[http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Portals/_PCBS/Downloads/book1624/book1624_0303.pdf "Literacy Rate in Palestinian Territories - 2007 Census"], Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, 2009. Retrieved on 2011-01-11.</ref> and relative population sizes of 62.3% in West Bank and 37.7% in Gaza Strip<ref>[http://www.pcbs.pna.org/Portals/_pcbs/PressRelease/census2007_e.pdf "The Population, Housing and Establishment Census - 2007, Press Conference on the Preliminary Findings, (Population, Buildings, Housing Units and Establishments)"], Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Ramallah, February 2008. Retrieved on 2011-01-11.</ref>
* The Holy See (Vatican City) not listed
* The Holy See (Vatican City) not listed


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World map indicating literacy by country (2011 Human Development Report) Grey = no data
World map indicating Education Index by country (2007/2008 Human Development Report)

List of countries by literacy rate, as included in the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Report 2011.[3][4]

The figures from the report represent a mixture of data collected by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, national self-reported data, and the UNDP's global projection models. Where data was unavailable older figures were used. For highly developed/high income countries where literacy statistics were not collected, a rate of 99% was assumed.[1]

List

# Rank Country Literacy rate [b]
1 1  Georgia 100.0
2 2  Cuba 99.9
3 3  Estonia 99.8
4 4  Latvia 99.8
5 5  Barbados 99.7 [j]
6 6  Slovenia 99.7 [l]
7 7  Belarus 99.7
8 8  Lithuania 99.7
9 9  Ukraine 99.7
10 10  Armenia 99.7
11 11  Kazakhstan 99.6
12 12  Tajikistan 99.6
13 13  Azerbaijan 99.5
14 14  Turkmenistan 99.5
15 15  Russia 99.5
16 16  Hungary 99.4 [j]
17 17  Kyrgyzstan 99.3
18 17  Poland 99.5 [j]
19 19  Tonga 99.2
20 20  Albania 99.1
21 20  Antigua and Barbuda 99.0 [q]
22 20  Australia 99.0 [d]
23 20  Austria 99.0 [d]
24 20  Belgium 99.0 [d]
25 20  Canada 99.0 [d]
26 20  Czech Republic 99.0 [d]
27 20  North Korea 99.0 [d]
28 20  Denmark 99.0 [d]
29 20  Finland 99.0 [d]
30 20  France 99.0 [d]
31 20  Germany 99.0 [d]
32 20  Guyana 99.0 [j]
33 20  Iceland 99.0 [d]
34 20  Ireland 99.0 [d]
35 20  Japan 99.0 [d]
36 20  South Korea 99.0 [d]
37 20  Luxembourg 99.0 [d]
38 20  Netherlands 99.0 [d]
39 20  New Zealand 99.0 [d]
40 20  Norway 99.0 [d]
41 20  Slovakia 99.0 [d]
42 20  Sweden 99.0 [d]
43 20   Switzerland 99.0 [d]
44 20  United Kingdom 99.0 [d]
45 20  United States See also: Literacy in the United States 99.0 [d]
46 46  Italy 98.9
47 47  Samoa 98.8 [l]
48 48  Croatia 98.8
49 49  Trinidad and Tobago 98.7 [l]
50 50  Uruguay 98.3
51 51  Bulgaria 98.3
52 52  Spain 97.9 [d]
53 53  Cyprus 97.9
54 54  Bosnia and Herzegovina 97.8
55 55  Serbia 97.8
56 56  Saint Kitts and Nevis 97.8 [k]
57 57  Romania 97.7
58 58  Argentina 97.7
59 59  Mongolia 97.5
60 60  Greece 97.2
61 61  Israel 97.1 [k]
62 62  Macedonia 97.1
63 63  Maldives 97.0
64 64  Uzbekistan 96.9 [j]
65 65  Chile 96.5
66 66  Costa Rica 96.1
67 67  Grenada 96.0 [q]
68 68  China 95.9 [k]
69 69  Bahamas 95.8 [j]
70 70  Venezuela 95.2
71 71  Brunei Darussalam 95.3
72 72  Portugal 94.9 [l]
73 73  Saint Lucia 94.8 [q]
74 74  Qatar 94.7
75 75  Singapore 94.7
76 76  Hong Kong 94.6 [j]
78 78  Paraguay 94.6 [l]
79 79  Kuwait 94.5
80 80  Fiji 94.4 [j]
81 81  Sri Lanka 94.2 [w]
82 82  Thailand 94.1
83 83  Panama 93.6
84 84  Philippines 93.4
85 85  Mexico 93.4
86 86  Equatorial Guinea 93.3
87 87  Colombia 93.2
88 88  Vietnam 92.8
89 89  Malaysia 92.5
90 90  Malta 92.4
91 91  Indonesia 92.0
92 92  Myanmar 92.0
93 93  Zimbabwe 91.9 [l]
94 94  Seychelles 91.8
95 95  Bahrain 91.4
96 96  Jordan 91.1
97 97  Ecuador 91.0
98 98  Iran 91.0[2]
99 99  Turkey 90.8
100 100  Bolivia 90.7
101 101  Suriname 90.4
102 102  United Arab Emirates 90.0 [l]
103 103  Brazil 90.0
104 104  Lesotho 89.7
105 105  Peru 89.6
106 106  Lebanon 89.6 [j]
107 107  Dominican Republic 89.1
108 108  Libya 88.9
109 109  Sao Tome and Principe 88.8
110 110  Namibia 88.5
111 111  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 88.1 [q]
112 112  Dominica 88.0 [q]
113 113  South Africa 88.0
114 114  Mauritius 87.9
115 115  Gabon 87.7
116 116  Kenya 87.0
117 117  Swaziland 86.9
118 118  Jamaica 86.4
119 119  Saudi Arabia 86.1
120 120  Cape Verde 84.8 [l]
121 121  Syria 84.2
122 122  Ecuador 84.2
123 123  Botswana 84.1
124 124  El Salvador 84.1
125 125  Honduras 83.6
126 126  Oman 81.4
127 127  Republic of the Congo 81.1 [l]
128 128  Vanuatu 80.2
129 129  Iraq 78.1
130 130  Nicaragua 78.0
131 131  Tunisia 77.7
132 132  Solomon Islands 76.6 [k]
133 133  Cambodia 76.3
134 134  Algeria 75.4
135 135  Belize 75.1 [q]
136 136  Guatemala 74.5
137 137  India 74.04[3]
138 138  Comoros 74.2
139 139  Malawi 73.7
140 140  Uganda 73.3
141 141  Tanzania 72.9
142 142  Nigeria 72.0* [l]
143 143  Zambia 70.9
144 144  Madagascar 70.7
145 145  Rwanda 70.7
146 146  Djibouti 70.3 [j]
147 147  Sudan 70.2 [aa]
148 148  Angola 70.0
149 149  Laos 68.7
150 150    Nepal 68.2
151 151  Cameroon 67.9
152 152  Democratic Republic of the Congo 66.8
153 153  Eritrea 66.6
154 154  Ghana 66.6
155 155  Burundi 66.6
156 156  Egypt 66.4
157 157  Yemen 62.4 [l]
158 158  Haiti 62.1 [j]
159 159  Papua New Guinea 60.1
160 160  Pakistan 58.2
161 161  Mauritania 57.5
162 162  Morocco 56.1
163 163  Bangladesh 55.9
164 164  Côte d'Ivoire 55.3
165 165  Central African Republic 55.2
166 166  Mozambique 55.1
167 167  Togo 53.2
168 168  Bhutan 52.8 [v]
169 169  Guinea-Bissau 52.2
170 170  Timor-Leste 50.1 [ab]
171 171  Senegal 49.7
172 172  Gambia 46.5 [j]
173 173  Benin 41.7
174 174  Sierra Leone 40.9
175 175  Guinea 39.5
176 176  Ethiopia 35.9
177 177  Chad 33.6
178 178  Burkina Faso 28.7
179 179  Niger 28.7
180 180  Afghanistan 28.0
181 181  South Sudan 27.0
182 182  Mali 26.2
183 183  Somalia 24.0

See also

Notes

  • ^ United Nations Development Program [5]
  • ^ Tables can be found UNDP.org
  • ^b 0 Data refer to national literacy estimates from censuses or surveys conducted between 1995 and 2005, unless otherwise specified. Due to differences in methodology and timeliness of underlying data, comparisons across countries and over time should be made with caution. For more details, see Unesco.org.
  • ^d 1 For purposes of calculating the HDI, a value of 99.0% was applied.
  • ^v 2 UNICEF 2004.
  • ^l 3 UNESCO Institute for Statistics estimates based on its Global Age-specific Literacy Projections model, April 2007.
  • ^j 4 In the absence of recent data, estimates from UNESCO Institute for Statistics 2003, based on outdated census or survey information, were used and should be interpreted with caution: Bahamas 95.8, Barbados 90.7, Comoros 56.8, Djibouti 70.3, Eritrea 67.5, Fiji 94.4, Gambia 42.5, Guinea-Bissau 11.00, Guyana 99.0, Haiti 54.8, Hong Kong, China (SAR) 94.6, Hungary 99.4, Lebanon 88.3, Poland 99.8 and Uzbekistan 80.4. Note that the 1991 census in Comoros indicates a literacy rate of 91% for the three independent islands.
  • ^k 5 Data are from national sources.
  • ^q 6 Data are from the Secretariat of the Caribbean Community, based on national sources.
  • ^w 7 www.moe.gov.lk
  • ^aa 8 Data refer to North Sudan only.
  • ^ab 9 UNDP 2007.
  • The Holy See (Vatican City) not listed

References

  1. ^ United Nations Development Programme Report 2011.[1][2]
  2. ^ http://hamshahrionline.ir/news-154929.aspx
  3. ^ Census of India 2011 http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011-prov-results/indiaatglance.html
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