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Lebanon
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#32out of 56 countries
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Historical trend

92.791.991.190.489.6200720132019Lebanon · 2019: 92Lebanon

Analytical takeaways

  • Lebanon records 92 for Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) in 2019, ranking #32 globally out of 56 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) increased from 90 in 2007 to 92 in 2019, a gain of 2.
  • 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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