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Uzbekistan
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#2out of 45 countries
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Historical trend

10099.799.399.098.6200020112022Uzbekistan · 2022: 100Uzbekistan

Analytical takeaways

  • Uzbekistan records 100 for Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) in 2022, ranking #2 globally out of 45 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) increased from 99 in 2000 to 100 in 2022, a gain of 1.
  • 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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