Adult Literacy Rate

Every edition in one file, one row per country per edition: adult-literacy-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Adult Literacy Rate: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2024	Distinct	Empty	Spread
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	172	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	172	0
Adults 15+ who can read and write (%)adult_literacy_rateHeadline	The headline figure: Adults 15+ who can read and write (%).	Number · up to 14 decimals	26.8300South Sudan100.00003 share itmiddle 93.9900	166	0
FemalefemaleWomen	The same measure, for women.	Number · up to 14 decimals	17.06Yemen100.004 share itmiddle 93.36	164	1
MalemaleMen	The same measure, for men.	Number · up to 14 decimals	34.84South Sudan100.006 share itmiddle 94.92	159	0
Reference yearreference_yearReading year	The year this country’s reading describes. Readings from different years sit side by side.	Year	—	31	0

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the better result.

One edition, covering 172 countries.

Not in this dataset · 53 places this site covers

UIS gives no figure for these in any edition held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

AndorraAustraliaAustriaBahamasBelgiumBermudaBritish Virgin IslandsCanadaChannel IslandsCook IslandsCuraçaoCzechiaDenmarkDjiboutiDominicaFaroe IslandsFijiFinlandFranceFrench PolynesiaGermanyGibraltarGreenlandHong KongIcelandIrelandIsle of ManJapanKosovoLiechtensteinLuxembourgMicronesiaMonacoMontserratNetherlandsNew ZealandNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsNorwaySaint Kitts and NevisSaint LuciaSaint MartinSint MaartenSlovakiaSomalilandSwedenSwitzerlandTaiwanTurks and Caicos IslandsUnited KingdomUnited StatesUnited States Virgin IslandsVatican City

1. 1 · Publisher

   UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)

   databrowser.uis.unesco.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Adult Literacy Rate — UIS (readings to 2024)

   indicators

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 10, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   1 file, one per edition

   It downloads as a CSV: adult-literacy-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/adult-literacy

From the UNESCO Institute for Statistics data API, latest available reading per country. Female and male rates are stored beside the headline.