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Palau
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#3out of 41 countries
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Historical trend

99.797.495.192.890.5198020002020Palau · 2020: 99.71%Palau

Analytical takeaways

  • Palau records 99.71% for Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) in 2020, ranking #3 globally out of 41 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) increased from 90.50% in 1980 to 99.71% in 2020, a gain of 9.21%.
  • The country sits in the top quartile of the global distribution for this metric, making the page useful for leader-oriented high-intent searches.

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