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Sri Lanka
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#17out of 29 countries
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Historical trend

92.189.587.084.582.0198120032024Sri Lanka · 2024: 92.06%Sri Lanka

Analytical takeaways

  • Sri Lanka records 92.06% for Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) in 2024, ranking #17 globally out of 29 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) increased from 82.02% in 1981 to 92.06% in 2024, a gain of 10.04%.
  • 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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