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Gabon
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#25out of 45 countries
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Historical trend

87.181.676.270.865.3199320072021Gabon · 2021: 87.07%Gabon

Analytical takeaways

  • Gabon records 87.07% for Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) in 2021, ranking #25 globally out of 45 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) increased from 65.33% in 1993 to 87.07% in 2021, a gain of 21.74%.
  • 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.

Comparison

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