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Papua New Guinea
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#28out of 45 countries
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Historical trend

87.079.672.264.857.3200020112022Papua New Guinea · 2022: 87Papua New Guinea

Analytical takeaways

  • Papua New Guinea records 87 for Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) in 2022, ranking #28 globally out of 45 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) increased from 57 in 2000 to 87 in 2022, a gain of 30.
  • 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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