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Belize
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#28out of 48 countries
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Historical trend

91.686.381.075.770.3199120072022Belize · 2022: 87.88%Belize

Analytical takeaways

  • Belize records 87.88% for Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) in 2022, ranking #28 globally out of 48 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) increased from 70.33% in 1991 to 87.88% in 2022, a gain of 17.55%.
  • 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.

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