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Ethiopia
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#41out of 45 countries
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Historical trend

60.552.143.735.427.0199420082022Ethiopia · 2022: 60Ethiopia

Analytical takeaways

  • Ethiopia records 60 for Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) in 2022, ranking #41 globally out of 45 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) increased from 27 in 1994 to 60 in 2022, a gain of 33.
  • 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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