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Mongolia
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#4out of 29 countries
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Historical trend

99.298.698.197.596.9200020122024Mongolia · 2024: 99Mongolia

Analytical takeaways

  • Mongolia records 99 for Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) in 2024, ranking #4 globally out of 29 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) increased from 98 in 2000 to 99 in 2024, a gain of 1.
  • 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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