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Paraguay
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#15out of 29 countries
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Historical trend

94.990.185.480.675.8198220032024Paraguay · 2024: 94.34%Paraguay

Analytical takeaways

  • Paraguay records 94.34% for Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) in 2024, ranking #15 globally out of 29 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) increased from 75.85% in 1982 to 94.34% in 2024, a gain of 18.49%.
  • 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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