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Sierra Leone
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#55out of 58 countries
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Historical trend

40.636.532.428.324.2200420122019Sierra Leone · 2019: 33.94%Sierra Leone

Analytical takeaways

  • Sierra Leone records 33.94% for Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) in 2019, ranking #55 globally out of 58 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) increased from 24.16% in 2004 to 33.94% in 2019, a gain of 9.78%.
  • The country sits in the bottom quartile of the global distribution for this metric, which also makes the page relevant for low-value and lagging-performance searches.

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