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Nigeria
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#28out of 29 countries
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Historical trend

64.359.053.848.643.3199120082024Nigeria · 2024: 62.42%Nigeria

Analytical takeaways

  • Nigeria records 62.42% for Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) in 2024, ranking #28 globally out of 29 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) increased from 43.73% in 1991 to 62.42% in 2024, a gain of 18.69%.
  • 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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