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Malawi
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#38out of 42 countries
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Historical trend

76.769.762.655.648.5198720042020Malawi · 2020: 70Malawi

Analytical takeaways

  • Malawi records 70 for Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) in 2020, ranking #38 globally out of 42 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) increased from 49 in 1987 to 70 in 2020, a gain of 22.
  • 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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