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Singapore
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#9out of 44 countries
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Historical trend

97.794.090.386.682.9198020012021Singapore · 2021: 98Singapore

Analytical takeaways

  • Singapore records 98 for Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) in 2021, ranking #9 globally out of 44 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) increased from 83 in 1980 to 98 in 2021, a gain of 15.
  • 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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