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Argentina
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#6out of 41 countries
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Historical trend

99.297.896.495.093.6198020002020Argentina · 2020: 99.16%Argentina

Analytical takeaways

  • Argentina records 99.16% for Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) in 2020, ranking #6 globally out of 41 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) increased from 93.58% in 1980 to 99.16% in 2020, a gain of 5.58%.
  • The country sits in the top quartile of the global distribution for this metric, making the page useful for leader-oriented high-intent searches.

Comparison

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