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Samoa
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#12out of 56 countries
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Historical trend

99.799.398.898.497.9199120052019Samoa · 2019: 98Samoa

Analytical takeaways

  • Samoa records 98 for Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) in 2019, ranking #12 globally out of 56 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) increased from 98 in 1991 to 98 in 2019, a gain 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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