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Lesotho
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#7out of 29 countries
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Historical trend

98.592.686.680.774.7200020122024Lesotho · 2024: 96.63%Lesotho

Analytical takeaways

  • Lesotho records 96.63% for Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) in 2024, ranking #7 globally out of 29 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) increased from 92.05% in 2000 to 96.63% in 2024, a gain of 4.58%.
  • The country sits in the top quartile of the global distribution for this metric, making the page useful for leader-oriented high-intent searches.

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