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Belarus
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#4out of 58 countries
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Historical trend

99.999.198.397.496.6198920042019Belarus · 2019: 99.88%Belarus

Analytical takeaways

  • Belarus records 99.88% for Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) in 2019, ranking #4 globally out of 58 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) increased from 96.63% in 1989 to 99.88% in 2019, a gain of 3.25%.
  • 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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