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Congo, Dem. Rep.
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#33out of 35 countries
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Historical trend

66.563.360.157.053.8200120122023Congo, Dem. Rep. · 2023: 53.78%Congo, Dem. Rep.

Analytical takeaways

  • Congo, Dem. Rep. records 53.78% for Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) in 2023, ranking #33 globally out of 35 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) declined from 54.06% in 2001 to 53.78% in 2023, a decrease of 0.28%.
  • 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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