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.
Exact source values · %
Reporting year
Afghanistan
Source status
2000
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2001
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2002
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2003
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2004
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2005
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2006
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2007
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2008
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2009
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2010
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2011
31.4500007629394
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2012
Not available
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2013
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2014
Not available
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2015
33.75
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2016
Not available
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2017
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2018
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2019
Not available
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2020
36.0149650316607
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2021
37.2700004577637
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2022
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2023
Not available
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2024
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2025
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Source and methods
National survey and administrative definitions vary; this is the WDI distribution, separately from the direct UIS completion dataset.
The World Bank: World Development Indicators: Data API, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), uri: https://databrowser.uis.unesco.org/resources, note: The data are obtained through the UIS API. Detailed documentation is available at: https://api.uis.unesco.org/api/public/documentation/, publisher: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), type: Excel (bulk file), date accessed: 2026-03-19, date published: 2026-02. Selected and formatted by World Signals Monitor. No publisher endorsement is implied.
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