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Albania
Literacy rate, adult total (% of people 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#9out of 33 countries
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Historical trend

98.898.197.496.795.9200120122023Albania · 2023: 98Albania

Analytical takeaways

  • Albania records 98 for Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) in 2023, ranking #9 globally out of 33 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) declined from 99 in 2001 to 98 in 2023, a decrease of 1.
  • The country sits in the middle of the global distribution for this metric, making the page a balanced entry point for comparative analysis beyond the extremes.

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