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Lao PDR
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#29out of 33 countries
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Historical trend

84.778.672.566.460.3199520092023Lao PDR · 2023: 76Lao PDR

Analytical takeaways

  • Lao PDR records 76 for Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) in 2023, ranking #29 globally out of 33 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) increased from 60 in 1995 to 76 in 2023, a gain of 15.
  • 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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