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Jamaica
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#25out of 48 countries
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Historical trend

90.889.688.387.185.9199920112022Jamaica · 2022: 90.81%Jamaica

Analytical takeaways

  • Jamaica records 90.81% for Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) in 2022, ranking #25 globally out of 48 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) increased from 85.87% in 1999 to 90.81% in 2022, a gain of 4.94%.
  • 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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