Youth Literacy Rate

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

Every column in the newest file of Youth 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	—	174	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	174	0
15–24 year-olds who can read and write (%)youth_literacy_rateHeadline	The headline figure: 15–24 year-olds who can read and write (%).	Number · up to 14 decimals	36.7000South Sudan100.00006 share itmiddle 98.2250	151	0
FemalefemaleWomen	The same measure, for women.	Number · up to 14 decimals	29.580South Sudan100.00011 share itmiddle 98.545	146	0
MalemaleMen	The same measure, for men.	Number · up to 14 decimals	44.080South Sudan100.00011 share itmiddle 98.315	146	2
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 174 countries.

Not in this dataset · 51 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.

AndorraAntigua and BarbudaAustraliaAustriaBahamasBelgiumBermudaBritish Virgin IslandsCanadaChannel IslandsCook IslandsCuraçaoCzechiaDenmarkDominicaFaroe IslandsFijiFinlandFranceFrench PolynesiaGermanyGibraltarGreenlandHong KongIcelandIrelandIsle of ManJapanKosovoLiechtensteinLuxembourgMicronesiaMonacoMontserratNetherlandsNew ZealandNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsNorwaySaint Kitts and NevisSaint MartinSint MaartenSlovakiaSomalilandSwedenSwitzerlandTaiwanUnited KingdomUnited StatesUnited States Virgin IslandsVatican City

1. 1 · Publisher

   UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)

   databrowser.uis.unesco.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Youth 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: youth-literacy-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/youth-literacy

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