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Tonga
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 33 countries
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Historical trend

99.697.595.393.291.1197620002023Tonga · 2023: 99Tonga

Analytical takeaways

  • Tonga records 99 for Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) in 2023, ranking #4 globally out of 33 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) declined from 100 in 1976 to 99 in 2023, a decrease of 0.
  • 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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