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Oman
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#17out of 48 countries
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Historical trend

94.989.884.879.874.7200320132022Oman · 2022: 94.86%Oman

Analytical takeaways

  • Oman records 94.86% for Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) in 2022, ranking #17 globally out of 48 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) increased from 74.73% in 2003 to 94.86% in 2022, a gain of 20.13%.
  • 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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