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Chad
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#55out of 56 countries
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Historical trend

30.625.720.815.810.9199320062019Chad · 2019: 31Chad

Analytical takeaways

  • Chad records 31 for Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) in 2019, ranking #55 globally out of 56 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) increased from 11 in 1993 to 31 in 2019, a gain of 20.
  • 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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