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Lebanon
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 58 countries
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Historical trend

90.389.288.187.086.0200720132019Lebanon · 2019: 89.52%Lebanon

Analytical takeaways

  • Lebanon records 89.52% for Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) in 2019, ranking #34 globally out of 58 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) increased from 85.97% in 2007 to 89.52% in 2019, a gain of 3.55%.
  • 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.

Comparison

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