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Ghana
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#31out of 44 countries
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Historical trend

76.571.867.262.557.9200020112021Ghana · 2021: 76Ghana

Analytical takeaways

  • Ghana records 76 for Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) in 2021, ranking #31 globally out of 44 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) increased from 58 in 2000 to 76 in 2021, a gain of 19.
  • 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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