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Guyana
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#30out of 42 countries
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Historical trend

85.664.242.821.40.0202020202020Guyana · 2020: 86Guyana

Analytical takeaways

  • Guyana records 86 for Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) in 2020, ranking #30 globally out of 42 countries.
  • The historical series is still too short to interpret the trend.
  • 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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