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Cuba
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#18out of 58 countries
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Historical trend

99.898.998.197.296.3200220112019Cuba · 2019: 96.35%Cuba

Analytical takeaways

  • Cuba records 96.35% for Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) in 2019, ranking #18 globally out of 58 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) declined from 99.79% in 2002 to 96.35% in 2019, a decrease of 3.44%.
  • 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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