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Guatemala
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#24out of 29 countries
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Historical trend

78.773.468.062.657.3199420092024Guatemala · 2024: 78.46%Guatemala

Analytical takeaways

  • Guatemala records 78.46% for Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) in 2024, ranking #24 globally out of 29 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) increased from 57.29% in 1994 to 78.46% in 2024, a gain of 21.17%.
  • 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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