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Comoros
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#34out of 45 countries
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Historical trend

72.064.156.248.240.3198020012021Comoros · 2021: 71.98%Comoros

Analytical takeaways

  • Comoros records 71.98% for Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) in 2021, ranking #34 globally out of 45 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) increased from 40.32% in 1980 to 71.98% in 2021, a gain of 31.66%.
  • 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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