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Indonesia
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#17out of 41 countries
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Historical trend

94.685.376.166.957.7198020002020Indonesia · 2020: 94.55%Indonesia

Analytical takeaways

  • Indonesia records 94.55% for Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) in 2020, ranking #17 globally out of 41 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) increased from 57.69% in 1980 to 94.55% in 2020, a gain of 36.86%.
  • 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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