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Malaysia
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 48 countries
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Historical trend

94.786.378.069.661.3198020012022Malaysia · 2022: 94.67%Malaysia

Analytical takeaways

  • Malaysia records 94.67% for Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) in 2022, ranking #18 globally out of 48 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) increased from 61.25% in 1980 to 94.67% in 2022, a gain of 33.42%.
  • 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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