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Colombia
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#10out of 29 countries
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Historical trend

95.994.793.592.391.2199320092024Colombia · 2024: 95.69%Colombia

Analytical takeaways

  • Colombia records 95.69% for Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) in 2024, ranking #10 globally out of 29 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) increased from 91.15% in 1993 to 95.69% in 2024, a gain of 4.54%.
  • 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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