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Somalia, Fed. Rep.
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#44out of 48 countries
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Historical trend

53.951.448.946.443.9201920212022Somalia, Fed. Rep. · 2022: 43.90%Somalia, Fed. Rep.

Analytical takeaways

  • Somalia, Fed. Rep. records 43.90% for Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) in 2022, ranking #44 globally out of 48 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) declined from 53.86% in 2019 to 43.90% in 2022, a decrease of 9.96%.
  • 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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