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Bahrain
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#7out of 29 countries
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Historical trend

97.990.883.876.869.8198120032024Bahrain · 2024: 98Bahrain

Analytical takeaways

  • Bahrain records 98 for Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) in 2024, ranking #7 globally out of 29 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) increased from 70 in 1981 to 98 in 2024, a gain of 28.
  • The country sits in the top quartile of the global distribution for this metric, making the page useful for leader-oriented high-intent searches.

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