India
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.
Historical trend
Analytical takeaways
- India records 78 for Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) in 2024, ranking #25 globally out of 29 countries.
- Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) increased from 41 in 1981 to 78 in 2024, a gain of 37.
- 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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