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Mauritania
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#41out of 42 countries
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Historical trend

65.161.658.254.751.2200020102020Mauritania · 2020: 60Mauritania

Analytical takeaways

  • Mauritania records 60 for Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) in 2020, ranking #41 globally out of 42 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) increased from 51 in 2000 to 60 in 2020, a gain of 8.
  • The country sits in the bottom quartile of the global distribution for this metric, which also makes the page relevant for low-value and lagging-performance searches.

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