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Honduras
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#23out of 29 countries
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Historical trend

89.086.784.582.380.0200120132024Honduras · 2024: 88Honduras

Analytical takeaways

  • Honduras records 88 for Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) in 2024, ranking #23 globally out of 29 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) increased from 80 in 2001 to 88 in 2024, a gain of 8.
  • 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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