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Burkina Faso
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#35out of 35 countries
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Historical trend

35.727.619.611.53.4197519992023Burkina Faso · 2023: 35.73%Burkina Faso

Analytical takeaways

  • Burkina Faso records 35.73% for Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) in 2023, ranking #35 globally out of 35 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) increased from 3.39% in 1975 to 35.73% in 2023, a gain of 32.34%.
  • 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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