Literacy Rate by Country - 190 Countries Compared

Literacy Rate by Country 2023 - 190 Countries Compared
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Sources: 1. Adult literacy rate, population 15+ years (both sexes, female, male)". UIS Data Centre. UNESCO. 2. Adult literacy rate, population 15+ eyars, both sexes - UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) 3. Literacy - CIA World Factbook 4. Literacy rate, adult total (%of people ages 15 and above) - World Bank 5. Adult literacy rates - Our World in Data

[@FantaMarija5679]

Total countries is 197. Why is +7 countries?

[@RicktheCrofter]

Several years ago I was reading an article on national literacy rates. Several countries rated their citizens as literate if they could write their own names. While in the United States one is/was considered literate if one can read at a fourth grade level in English. I suspect that many of the high literacy rates are due to low standards.

[@Arkturbettel]

... including the US's))

[@lobstermash]

Agreed. And countries with self-reported rates of 100% - they have no dyslexia or learning disabilities at all? Really? I don't believe it. In any first-world country, check the prison population and you'll find plenty who can't read or write.

[@StekTM1]

All former soviet republics are above 99%. Truly amazing

[@lassehaggman]

I noticed the same. Not a fan of the Soviet Union, but education was one thing they took seriously. Also, Cuba is by far the best Latin American country in this respect. It is all about priorities.

[@heraldomedrano1417]

Why are they poor?

[@heraldomedrano1417]

Poor 3rd world countries

[@dongiovanni8899]

@@heraldomedrano1417 they didn't implement market economy

[@aumelb]

​@heraldomedrano1417 didn't have time to create their own empires to rob other countries of their resources after USSR collapsed. Seriously though, I would take statistics coming from such countries as Turkmenistan and Tajikistan with a grain of salt.

[@suzannahmontreal1051]

Most countries from the former soviet union prioritize high education. It was true then as it is now.

[@lpdude2005]

But it is total manipulation. Yes, they had good schools in towns - but were far behind in most areas. Moreover - such countries as Russia, which my country has a border with - there we found out that in the far north of Russia, the 40-50 year olds up until today had hardly had any schooling at all. Many had 2-3 years at primary school. And then - then one can only imagine how they were and are in the Asian parts of Russia - where many are "nomads" - Russia has long only had statistics for a maximum of 70% of the population.

[@mrgentleman6588]

Being Uzbek person, I can proud of my country's people literary rate is 100%🎉

[@dotdot1258]

Well done Uzbek!

[@luizaakhsanieva6469]

Благодаря СССР…

[@Black_AVGN]

Ещё и на втором месте в мире

[@luizaakhsanieva6469]

После перехода на латиницу очень сомнительно говорить о 100%-й грамотности населения😆.

[@hermanclifford2416]

“SELF DECLARED”

[@wilsonrfernandes]

Política "identitária"😉

[@YOON_AND_CXTIA]

9:30 ☠️

[@user-vd7mm4fx6y]

despite having almost 40 million population Uzbekistan has 100% literacy rate🇺🇿❤️

[@user_.228]

С каждым годом снижается, без советской власти вы никто..

[@user-vd7mm4fx6y]

@@user_.228 anime pfp spotted, opinion rejected, get a life

[@jeffanderson8165]

Some years ago, I did a paper comparing the literacy rates of countries to the rates with which people followed the most dominant religion. In short, "X" percentage of the population are literate, and "Y" percent of the population follow "Z" religion. I then compared the ratio of those percentages to the degree that folks in the Intel community regarded the nation as either unstable or as supporters of destabilizers elsewhere in the world. The higher the ratio of followers to the dominant religion to being literate, the higher the likelihood of the nation being a troublemaker country. It was almost a direct comparison.

[@nerd_cassette]

I'm sorry, I missed four countries: Italy: 99.4% Moldova: 99.4% Tonga: 99.4%

[@parisgaming2345]

That's 3

[@anburan2887]

Tonga and Moldova are developing countries but those are very high

[@IErfanCN]

3 🙄

[@An_indonesian]

I didnt see indomesia

[@flandrescarlet8040]

​@@anburan2887Because our education system (f)ducks us up from childhood. Greetings from Moldova;)

[@mjones8170]

Even wealthy countries can have some native tribes that don't have literacy as their culture focuses on spoken language. Also, some countries have higher refugees and immigrants from Africa and other low literacy places.

[@spikefivefivefive]

If the US literacy rate excluded blacks then the US would have a literacy rate up there with Japan and Iceland.

[@vickyburton2434]

I do not believe any country has 100% literacy. There are a small number of people with various degrees of mental retardation who will never learn to read. Also, there is a difference between being able to read and functional literacy. I have met many people who read, but do not understand what they just read. I see it more and more.

[@vasgen4360]

Cuba and North Korea - 100% is true as everyone must follow their ruling parties' policy of 100% literacy, otherwise the parents and teachers face criminal charge.

[@joaopedrobaggio4475]

This is the most intelligent comment that i saw today.

[@heraldomedrano1417]

Why are they poor?

[@Nunawariyaku]

@@heraldomedrano1417 CUBA bad salary (Profesionals working with their cars like taxi for tourist money) ._. NORTH KOREA (Working like shit for food because their country cant produce for everybody but they dont want help) :)

[@vasgen4360]

@heraldomedrano1417 because creativity faces criminal charges as well, everything is mandated by the party's local committees (they may be good for managing people, but not to create a car or improve productivity).

[@aumelb]

"Self-declared" - nough said. I can believe 100 about Cuba though.

[@FatimAgayeva-hr3ne]

I was very happy when my country came out 😊❤🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿

[@carloschacal9334]

Welcome to the gay community!

[@FatimAgayeva-hr3ne]

@@carloschacal9334do you know what you are talking about? it sucks

[@stanislav7411]

noob@@carloschacal9334

[@ShadowVexxW]

??@@carloschacal9334

[@ansaryounas4137]

Very interesting and information

[@mikelouis9389]

Fascinating! Some very troubling patterns too.

[@hideoyamada4999]

I wonder what "literacy" really means. in these statistics, does it mean being able to recognize "letter A to B?"or being able to understand something like most of their own constitution?. I know that's somewhere in between, but wonder around where?

[@joaopedrobaggio4475]

Yes i agree with, literacy means nothing seeing all the garbage that teachers are pushing into our children.

[@marcomiranda6574]

As far as I know, it refers to the capacity of the population to read a text and translate it into speech, and vice versa. It was described the inability of certain people to actually understand what they just have read. In my language, it is called "functional illiteracy". It could be as high as 15% of the population, in a country with a literacy rate of more than 96%.

[@hideoyamada4999]

@@marcomiranda6574 Thank you!

[@jeffanderson8165]

As someone who lives in the United States, I can assure you that the 99% statistic they give for the U.S. is inaccurate. My best guess is that literacy rates in inner cities, which constitute as much as 40% of the total U.S. population, is perhaps 35%. Saddest thing about it is that children in that environment are programmed to think that being literate is to betray their cultural heritage and that "Forcing" literacy on them is racist oppression.

[@aumelb]

Most people in some of those "100% literacy" countries have never read their constitution. I'm sure some don't even know what it is.

[@global_tomo]

日本が99%？100%じゃないのか。信じられない。

[@cualcualcual]

나도 98% 안 믿긴다

[@user-my6oi3jk4y]

北朝鮮が１００％？信じられない。金正日がわかればいいのかな？

[@user-mp1cq1dl3g]

​@@cualcualcual1.한국어를 읽는 기준이라면 외국에서 태어나서 자란 이중국적자라서 한글을 못읽는 경우(실제로 한국인은 해외에 많은 편) 2.심각한 지적장애나 식물인간,일제강점기에 태어나 제대로된 교육을 받지 못한 80세 이상의 노인

[@kiyokiyo9230]

日常困らない程度の識字ならそのくらいか、完璧に理解している人間は皆無かも

[@TheUKNutter]

North Korea with 100% literacy rate?! Incredible

[@scottkim8241]

because they have to teach about how wonderful and superior their nation and their leaders are... haha If their people don't know how to read and write... it will never make any use to propagate to them And moreover because they do use the letter Hangul which is easy to learn and read it will also be the reason because Hangul actually doesn't need so much effort to learn to 'read' or 'write'

[@june6193]

I'm Korean and I guess it is not that weird 100% All North koreans can read fluently. Because hangul is intuitive and easy to read. there's no intricate pronunciation rules like English. For example, In English, " boom bomb bond"

[@saisirvous7363]

As a Chinese I can confirm that North Korean education r very developed. If u r an educated person. Plz not tease them. A normal ppl on the streets can speak at least 2 or 3 languages. Mostly Korean Chinese mandarin and English

[@TheUKNutter]

@@june6193 In my english, bomb and bond is the same O sound.

[@Kimmyeditz2]

Hahahaa education is compulsory

[@imbraveee]

Unique Channel❤

[@nerd_cassette]

Thanks bro 💙

[@thiagoflorindo2849]

The data for Brazil is out of date. New research carried out in 2022 says that the literacy rate in Brazil is 94.4%

[@PULATOVKHUSAN]

Waw my country ranks second with 100 percent literacy ❤🇺🇿😜

[@shavkatqochqorov6162]

🇺🇿❤️

[@pipoca840]

Argentina adelante papá 🇦🇷😎

[@BeerBear050]

99% tremendo, amigo 👌🏻🇦🇷

[@uuuuuuuu-ko8cr]

‏‪6:21‬‏ Wow, not only did they occupy an area that was not theirs, but they took their comfort there at the expense of the lives of the Palestinians and their lands.

[@davidbrock2871]

I don’t believe that any country has 100%. I do believe that Cuba has a higher rate than the USA.

[@aarnav756]

I love content like this, though, some of my friends were doubting it and saying how is India lower than bangldesh in terms of literacy, idealy i did not notice it but now I saw, I wonder if it is because of population difference???🤨🤨🤨

[@GoodGood-vb8gm]

This video shows literacy rate does not always correlate with a country prosperity / standard of living of its people

[@dongiovanni8899]

many Indian children suffer malnutrition thus affect their cognitive development

[@user-sw7io5tt9g]

Uzbekistan 😊

[@ranieltv5061]

🇵🇭🇵🇭❤

[@Atybelgisiz]

countries ending with "stan" scored higher than Western countries😉

[@Timur_Alma-ata]

Its complicated. All post soviet countries are pretty high in education because of soviet legacy. For example in Russia school education is very good. In Kazakhstan, where i live, it worse, but not much worse. In Uzbekistan it much worse but its still better than in majority african countries. Turkmenistan, i think, must be in the bottom of this chart.

[@yueyumyum7827]

They are all old soviet union or soviet union’s friend.

[@Thanos-lo5xo]

@@Timur_Alma-ataThey “Self proclame it, like North Korea”

[@Timur_Alma-ata]

@@Thanos-lo5xo im talking about facts. I live here.

[@Thanos-lo5xo]

@@Timur_Alma-ata I just didn’t understand well what you said, you are right

[@rabbitistherobot8705]

I wonder if cold climates and areas with limited internet have any effects?

[@parisgaming2345]

3/4 of Malagasy people can speak and read ? I think it would be higher, due to a famous Malagasy singer called Anisha Jo

[@anthonipillaijohnemmanuel8861]

Good

[@elisworld7420]

I’m going to see finland

[@GoodGood-vb8gm]

If the information given in this video is accurate, that means literacy rate does not correlate with a country's riches and the standard of living of its people.

[@Account.for.Comment]

It correlated to the population. There are over a billion people in India. There are far less in Liechtenstein and Laos. The latter two has less illiterate people.

[@lassehaggman]

It tells about the priorities. If your country has many billionaires and low literacy, you know you suck.

[@vatroslavmarkus24]

Italy, Croatia??

[@djkire5780]

Chad be like: Real Chads🗿don’t learn themselves, they teach others

[@Csuen]

Im from Finland 🇫🇮💜

[@LawpickingLocksmith]

So strange, the top end could lead to debate, intelligence can even lead to wars if one looks at current countries involved at war.

[@antoniotempesta5456]

sinceramente mi lascia perplesso questa classifica... più che quanti si seggano sui banchi scolastici bisognerebbe sapere quanto apprendono: per fare un esempio in arabia saudita le donne hanno una conoscenza elementare e non oltre , e anche la classificazione della corea del nord mi pare esagerata... forse entrano a scuola, ma sapere quanti tagli di capalli permetta il buon kim non mi pare un insegnamento di vita utile

[@user-gm8zx9my3q]

When was reading level related to poetry?

[@zohraferoudja3298]

In Algeria, education is free and. Compulsory for all Algerian kids from 5years old to 18 and studying at the University.is free too, so ,We are proud of our educational system ,but ,of course,we hope it will get better and better in the content, more than 90/100of Algerians. are. literate not81/100

[@steelfloor10]

I’m not surprised America so far down the list. Politicians don’t want us to be smart.

[@llhll8264]

?? 99% is far down? Get real. Especially considering that by law even the children of illegal immigrants have access to our schools. And it’s still 99%

[@zunairahmed5537]

is your channel monetized brother ?

[@IDMarketer]

Yes

[@oneworld9942]

Bro please reply which app or software u making this video ? Pls tell me bro

[@IDMarketer]

I wanna know too

[@TheAndre1702]

bro pls bro

[@user-tn4mt9zb2x]

who is today in 2023 do not go to school , i think in most of countries in the world all the population can read and write

[@romualdodamato5501]

Italy?

[@almamater7427]

got to give it up.-marvin gaye

[@Sigma89899]

The literacy rate in Bangladesh was 75.6 per cent in 2022

[@deangomez9268]

A country's literacy is directly affected by its geographic location, tradition, culture, religion and demographics.

[@anacasanova7350]

Corea del Norte no es una democracia y está alfabetizada 100%

[@SteelyGlow]

I would say it is directly affected by the involvement of western colonization. The more is involvement of outer interventions, the less is literacy rate. Just because the people are too busy trying to survive due to poverty.

[@lpdude2005]

Who is behind these figures - The figures are totally different in THE WORLD BANK - which most professions relate to

[@almamater7427]

rewind the tape and it unravels.

[@akbarmirzo]

USSR did a great job educating the masses. Thats why Uzbekistan 🇺🇿 is 100% and so are the test of the union.

[@lowrhyan567]

I don't remember someone asking me if I was illiterate.

[@chonafernandez5186]

In most cases I think rating is based on read and write their names?

[@coffeeaka5569]

The question is it literacy rates high or low Isn't clear

[@Black_AVGN]

Uzbekistan🇺🇿 top 2 in the world

[@SponsorShort]

I'm Iranian and don't remember the last time I saw an illiterate citizen under 70. It's such a social disgrace not to have a high school diploma, let alone be a total illiterate. I don't know where this alleged %14 illiterate minority live. That's very weird.

[@aumelb]

Probably not in Tehran.

[@SponsorShort]

@@aumelb I've traveled all around the country, and worked in ministry of labor. I had Access to the numbers. 14 percent is total bull crap. It's not possible. Such a person will starve.

[@threepeater3127]

I'm from Belarus😎😎😎

[@lAsteriosl]

Are you the one 0.01% who spoiled statistics? =)

[@threepeater3127]

@@lAsteriosl :|

[@user-cs8kt4ts1z]

🇹🇷♥️🇹🇷

[@ArumWaharatri]

I'm from Indonesia. I'm so happy our literacy rate quite high our previous generation or heroes work really hard. But sadly many people in Indonesia not quite good with their reading comprehension and our Qur'an literacy only around 60%.

[@dearrylh8924]

we are above Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam. I don't know whether to be proud or doubt it?

[@Jim_Colbert]

Ngapain baca quran segala..lu bukan orang arab...gak penting banget...

[@Jhembeck]

@@dearrylh8924 ya bangga lah 😊

[@childfreesingleandatheist8899]

It’s good to know that Koran literacy is not as high. It’s always better to prioritize real science and history books over fiction, fairy tale books.

[@sullivan6661]

​@childfreesingleandatheist8899 😂

[@xartkill5304]

99.8% My Tajikistan 🇹🇯

[@souadchouli7327]

That's why I love Algeria it's 81.4 percent of books I'm so happy so please try to not bullying me if you are from Algeria or not from Algeria or even a supporter of Algeria

[@bhari1751]

🇮🇩♥️

[@Brick_Shadow_Fantasy]

Finland best

[@shiroumxm2052]

Italy¿¿ Where is Italy¿ I remember there was an Italy

[@atlasx5947]

新加坡居然不是100%

[@nutthapong1988]

Thailand 🇹🇭 4:34

[@kirilvelinov7774]

Katsumotoland is 95%

[@alexdobre2591]

You missed Italy

[@timgooding2448]

99.4% but not in the video.

[@alexdobre2591]

@@timgooding2448 Ok,thanks

[@nerd_cassette]

I'm sorry, I missed four countries: Italy: 99.4% Moldova: 99.4% Tonga: 99.4% Croatia: 99.3%

[@SaitamReirrax-rr7tt]

Argentina aparece en el minuto 8:10 🧠

[@americodavidvalenzuela2725]

Gracias jajaja

[@xamsexikmaawi7570]

Somalia 🇸🇴 65 70 %😊

[@aboutlivvy]

7:46 Ireland 🇮🇪 ❤

[@dominos247]

❄️ in 🇨🇦

[@AaronKnight-fe1vm]

I don't think this could ever be trues

[@SalmanRoblox11]

🇸🇦❤️🇸🇦

[@enriquesoler5669]

dudo mucho que venezuela este mucho mas arriba que colombioa pero es gringo las taradeses se le perdonan si quiera son cifras reales

[@billtsirtsis7060]

The nation of North Macedonia is actually at 92.2

[@elosnuhiu4023]

Did anybody see albania?? Cause i couldnt see it. How much was it

[@timopheyroflov]

6:34

[@kentte8156]

North Korea, Slovakia, Norway, Luxemburg, Liechtenstein, Andorra, Uzbekistan and Finland be like:🍷🗿

[@e.fontanot3809]

No

[@kentte8156]

​@@e.fontanot3809what you mean "no"!!😐😐

[@e.fontanot3809]

@@kentte8156 the worst country, literacy of the people would mean a global literacy for the idiot plebs

[@IErfanCN]

Ok

[@verasantos-yx6eu]

The índice for Brazil is over estimated! North and Northeast retain the high índice of non literacy!

[@ArthurJose-vc6wc]

O governo brasileiro abandonou o povo nordestino Meus avós são Pernambucanos e da pra perceber o grau de dificuldade ao falar, e sempre falam errado, triste situação de nosso país.

[@Chrissjoy.]

Sri lanka🇱🇰🥰

[@I-forgot-how-to-draw.]

I am slightly unhappy yet proud to say i am burmese

[@RyomenFuckingSukuna]

Wheres Lebanon

[@user-qv3tu1sx7k]

Where is Moldova?

[@vichy-185]

East Europe

[@masteroftheallfish1332]

Why Indonesia (my country) literacy rate in higher than India?

[@ironheart8374]

Me as well, as Indonesian i refused to believe wkwkwk. Indonesia should at lower level, baca tweet aj banyak yg ga sampai tuntas apalagi baca buku😂😭

[@Englishsea24]

Probably because India's population is much higher so it's easier to make higher percentages in a lower population if you know what I mean

[@Tumanggor-sq2xp]

​@@ironheart8374ngk usah kau terlalu menjelekkan negara sendiri blok Maksud dari vt ini adalah Lebih mengarah terhadap melek huruf, Bisa baca dan menulis bukan minat baca Terlihat sekali anda bagian dari miskin literasi itu Kenapa Indonesia lebih tinggi dari India Di India itu masih sangat banyak yang buta huruf apalagi dari kasta Dalit Perbanyak lagi deh literasi Dasar sampah lu

[@harry2.01]

India can afford a space programme, but won't bother teaching them to read and write, put a nation grid in and ensure that everyone has toilets, shame on them.

[@IDMarketer]

@@ironheart8374 literacy rate itu bukan seberapa rajin orang di suatu populasi membaca melainkan seberapa besar persentase orang yang tidak buta huruf 😅

[@ranieltv5061]

this year 2023 the philippines has a 97% literacy rate

[@GoodGood-vb8gm]

But the Philippines is still a poor country whose citizens with high school education have to go to rich countries to work as maids or construction workers.

[@ranieltv5061]

Yes, the philippines is close to a developed country because education and medical care are free here, and the philippines is not a very poor country because the number of people here who have completed education is increasing, but not all of them are go to other countries to be helpers and construction workers, there are also sea men and engineer architects and others. compared to other countries where life is really hard.

[@ranieltv5061]

why are you what country are you from

[@sucisriwidyaningsih3183]

Indonesia???

[@sullivan6661]

96%

[@Nunawariyaku]

North Korea (Self Declared) LOL xD

[@alexdobre2591]

Where's Kiribati?

[@NBgamer014]

Ussr be like : 🗿

[@user-rt7tg7xu1h]

Brasil é 94.6%

[@Mohammad-Aryan]

1st pin?

[@Stranger7_7]

100% in Finland ? Not sure since they have broken all good relations with Russia.

[@RodrigoLaiho7]

? Is that a joke?

[@Stranger7_7]

@@RodrigoLaiho7 Not at all.

[@RodrigoLaiho7]

@@Stranger7_7 So what do you mean? You're talking about politics or literacy? Do you know that they have one of the best education results ever? Articulate if you will to build a point here

[@moshesierra6849]

Cuba 🇨🇺❤️

[@CarloParise]

Where is Italy?

[@ymhktravel]

I don't think I saw South Korea, as well as some other countries. There are about 197 countries, and just 190 listed here.

[@LUNA_Moon_MARS]

What the??? 9:30 best korea?

[@vasgen4360]

Are u stupid? If one's kid cannot read, write, and do math at age 7 in North Korea, the parents can be declared "enemy of the state" znd sent to a labour camp along with the teacher, think about that. Nobody in North Korea asks you if you want or not, as you must follow the party's policy of 100% literacy.

[@Titan.Speaker.man9]

🇦🇿❤

[@Qazaqsha-sci]

Kazakhstan 99,8% 🇰🇿🇰🇿🇰🇿

[@almamater7427]

you missed kosovo...

[@camaradatrotsky5584]

The video is about countries

[@user-cr8kd1pr3h]

algeria

[@abinjoy9143]

Where is India

[@johnvictorangeles3289]

2:23 You have to protest,your country have been built up by the U.S. and U.K. and yet only 77.7 literacy rate?

[@badguyfromnorthdagon]

@@johnvictorangeles3289 Bro, It's calculated based on population. If your country has 10 million but 9 million are educated, So your country has a 90 literacy rate.

[@anonymuz796]

​@@badguyfromnorthdagonsome countries give citizens education since they were born.