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Nepal
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#46out of 58 countries
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Historical trend

59.446.834.321.79.1198120002019Nepal · 2019: 59.41%Nepal

Analytical takeaways

  • Nepal records 59.41% for Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) in 2019, ranking #46 globally out of 58 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) increased from 9.15% in 1981 to 59.41% in 2019, a gain of 50.26%.
  • 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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