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Tanzania
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#34out of 45 countries
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Historical trend

82.276.570.764.959.1198820052022Tanzania · 2022: 78Tanzania

Analytical takeaways

  • Tanzania records 78 for Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) in 2022, ranking #34 globally out of 45 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) increased from 59 in 1988 to 78 in 2022, a gain of 19.
  • 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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