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Turkmenistan
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#4out of 45 countries
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Historical trend

99.999.699.399.198.8199520092022Turkmenistan · 2022: 100Turkmenistan

Analytical takeaways

  • Turkmenistan records 100 for Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) in 2022, ranking #4 globally out of 45 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) increased from 99 in 1995 to 100 in 2022, a gain of 1.
  • 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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