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Mauritius
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#18out of 35 countries
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Historical trend

92.788.283.779.274.7199020072023Mauritius · 2023: 92.74%Mauritius

Analytical takeaways

  • Mauritius records 92.74% for Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) in 2023, ranking #18 globally out of 35 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) increased from 74.66% in 1990 to 92.74% in 2023, a gain of 18.08%.
  • 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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