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Marshall Islands
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#11out of 45 countries
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Historical trend

98.297.797.296.896.3201120162021Marshall Islands · 2021: 96.27%Marshall Islands

Analytical takeaways

  • Marshall Islands records 96.27% for Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) in 2021, ranking #11 globally out of 45 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) declined from 98.20% in 2011 to 96.27% in 2021, a decrease of 1.93%.
  • 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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