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China
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#15out of 41 countries
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Historical trend

95.184.173.162.151.1198220012020China · 2020: 95.05%China

Analytical takeaways

  • China records 95.05% for Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) in 2020, ranking #15 globally out of 41 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) increased from 51.14% in 1982 to 95.05% in 2020, a gain of 43.91%.
  • 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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