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Kuwait
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#15out of 42 countries
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Historical trend

96.587.278.068.859.6197519982020Kuwait · 2020: 96Kuwait

Analytical takeaways

  • Kuwait records 96 for Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) in 2020, ranking #15 globally out of 42 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) increased from 60 in 1975 to 96 in 2020, a gain of 37.
  • 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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