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Namibia
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#23out of 33 countries
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Historical trend

88.385.282.178.975.8199120072023Namibia · 2023: 88Namibia

Analytical takeaways

  • Namibia records 88 for Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) in 2023, ranking #23 globally out of 33 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) increased from 76 in 1991 to 88 in 2023, a gain of 12.
  • 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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