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Tunisia
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#25out of 33 countries
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Historical trend

86.376.767.257.748.2198420042023Tunisia · 2023: 86Tunisia

Analytical takeaways

  • Tunisia records 86 for Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) in 2023, ranking #25 globally out of 33 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) increased from 48 in 1984 to 86 in 2023, a gain of 38.
  • 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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