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Sao Tome and Principe
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#39out of 56 countries
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Historical trend

90.181.973.765.557.3198120002019Sao Tome and Principe · 2019: 87Sao Tome and Principe

Analytical takeaways

  • Sao Tome and Principe records 87 for Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) in 2019, ranking #39 globally out of 56 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) increased from 57 in 1981 to 87 in 2019, a gain of 30.
  • 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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