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Iraq
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#26out of 44 countries
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Historical trend

85.682.779.876.974.1200020112021Iraq · 2021: 84Iraq

Analytical takeaways

  • Iraq records 84 for Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) in 2021, ranking #26 globally out of 44 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) increased from 74 in 2000 to 84 in 2021, a gain of 10.
  • 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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