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Uganda
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#26out of 29 countries
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Historical trend

80.574.468.362.256.1199120082024Uganda · 2024: 77Uganda

Analytical takeaways

  • Uganda records 77 for Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) in 2024, ranking #26 globally out of 29 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) increased from 56 in 1991 to 77 in 2024, a gain of 21.
  • 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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