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Turkiye
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#14out of 45 countries
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Historical trend

95.382.770.257.645.1197519982021Turkiye · 2021: 95.27%Turkiye

Analytical takeaways

  • Turkiye records 95.27% for Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) in 2021, ranking #14 globally out of 45 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) increased from 45.10% in 1975 to 95.27% in 2021, a gain of 50.17%.
  • The country sits in the middle of the global distribution for this metric, making the page a balanced entry point for comparative analysis beyond the extremes.

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