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Malaysia
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#16out of 45 countries
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Historical trend

95.889.282.676.169.5198020012022Malaysia · 2022: 96Malaysia

Analytical takeaways

  • Malaysia records 96 for Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) in 2022, ranking #16 globally out of 45 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) increased from 70 in 1980 to 96 in 2022, a gain of 26.
  • 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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