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Iraq
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#27out of 45 countries
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Historical trend

79.976.072.068.164.2200020112021Iraq · 2021: 77.75%Iraq

Analytical takeaways

  • Iraq records 77.75% for Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) in 2021, ranking #27 globally out of 45 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) increased from 64.17% in 2000 to 77.75% in 2021, a gain of 13.58%.
  • 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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