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Italy
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#7out of 56 countries
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Historical trend

99.398.697.997.296.5198120002019Italy · 2019: 99Italy

Analytical takeaways

  • Italy records 99 for Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) in 2019, ranking #7 globally out of 56 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) increased from 96 in 1981 to 99 in 2019, a gain of 3.
  • The country sits in the top quartile of the global distribution for this metric, making the page useful for leader-oriented high-intent searches.

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