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Timor-Leste
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#38out of 48 countries
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Historical trend

65.756.847.938.930.0200120122022Timor-Leste · 2022: 65.72%Timor-Leste

Analytical takeaways

  • Timor-Leste records 65.72% for Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) in 2022, ranking #38 globally out of 48 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) increased from 30.00% in 2001 to 65.72% in 2022, a gain of 35.72%.
  • 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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