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Afghanistan
Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above)

Adult literacy rate is the percentage of people ages 15 and above who can both read and write with understanding a short simple statement about their everyday life.

Global rank#47out of 48 countries
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Historical trend

26.621.215.810.45.0197920012022Afghanistan · 2022: 26.60%Afghanistan

Analytical takeaways

  • Afghanistan records 26.60% for Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) in 2022, ranking #47 globally out of 48 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) increased from 4.99% in 1979 to 26.60% in 2022, a gain of 21.61%.
  • The country sits in the bottom quartile of the global distribution for this metric, which also makes the page relevant for low-value and lagging-performance searches.

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