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Central African Republic
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#54out of 56 countries
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Historical trend

50.742.534.426.318.2197519972019Central African Republic · 2019: 42Central African Republic

Analytical takeaways

  • Central African Republic records 42 for Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) in 2019, ranking #54 globally out of 56 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) increased from 18 in 1975 to 42 in 2019, a gain of 24.
  • 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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