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China
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#14out of 42 countries
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Historical trend

96.788.981.173.365.5198220012020China · 2020: 97China

Analytical takeaways

  • China records 97 for Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) in 2020, ranking #14 globally out of 42 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) increased from 66 in 1982 to 97 in 2020, a gain of 31.
  • 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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