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Turkmenistan
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#5out of 48 countries
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Historical trend

99.999.599.198.798.3199520092022Turkmenistan · 2022: 99.90%Turkmenistan

Analytical takeaways

  • Turkmenistan records 99.90% for Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) in 2022, ranking #5 globally out of 48 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) increased from 98.26% in 1995 to 99.90% in 2022, a gain of 1.64%.
  • The country sits in the top quartile of the global distribution for this metric, making the page useful for leader-oriented high-intent searches.

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