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Brazil
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#11out of 29 countries
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Historical trend

95.089.583.978.472.8198020022024Brazil · 2024: 95.01%Brazil

Analytical takeaways

  • Brazil records 95.01% for Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) in 2024, ranking #11 globally out of 29 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) increased from 72.85% in 1980 to 95.01% in 2024, a gain of 22.16%.
  • 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.

Comparison

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