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Congo, Dem. Rep.
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#30out of 33 countries
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Historical trend

77.074.271.468.565.7200120122023Congo, Dem. Rep. · 2023: 69Congo, Dem. Rep.

Analytical takeaways

  • Congo, Dem. Rep. records 69 for Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) in 2023, ranking #30 globally out of 33 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) increased from 67 in 2001 to 69 in 2023, a gain of 1.
  • 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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