Adult literacy rate, population 15+ years, rural — Value — All age ranges or no breakdown by age — Rural by country
The Suite of Gender Indicators presents a set of indicators relevant to agrifood systems that are disaggregated by sex, with the aim of highlighting gender differences across agrifood systems. The initial set of indicators is based on those used in FAO’s 2023 Status of Women in Agrifood Systems (SWAFS) report and...
What the numbers show
Adult literacy rate, population 15+ years, rural — Value — All age ranges or no breakdown by age — Rural is currently reported for 44 countries. The highest value is 100 % in Uzbekistan; the lowest is 25.57 % in Mali.
The median across all reporting countries is 88.09 %, and the mean is 79.64 %.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 4.
Over the past decade 37 countries rose and 6 fell. The largest increase was in Mali (up 67.8%), and the largest decrease in Cambodia (down 10.0%).
Adult literacy rate, population 15+ years, rural — Value — All age: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Uzbekistan | 100 % | 2022 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Türkiye | 91.77 % | 2015 | up 10.5% | rising |
| 2 | Armenia | 99.79 % | 2023 | up 0.3% | flat |
| 2 | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | 88.76 % | 2023 | up 0.7% | rising |
| 3 | Azerbaijan | 99.69 % | 2023 | down 0.1% | flat |
| 3 | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | 73.92 % | 2016 | up 4.9% | flat |
| 4 | Georgia | 99.4 % | 2024 | up 0.1% | flat |
| 5 | Serbia | 98.95 % | 2022 | up 2.5% | rising |
| 6 | Uruguay | 98.14 % | 2024 | up 1.1% | flat |
| 6 | Spain | 98.14 % | 2020 | up 1.3% | flat |
| 8 | Mongolia | 97.2 % | 2023 | up 0.9% | flat |
| 9 | Palestine, State of | 97.08 % | 2022 | up 2.5% | rising |
| 10 | Kuwait | 95.65 % | 2018 | up 2.2% | flat |
| 11 | Jordan | 95.32 % | 2023 | down 2.6% | rising |
| 12 | Oman | 95.01 % | 2022 | up 17.6% | rising |
| 13 | Indonesia | 93.64 % | 2020 | up 6.0% | rising |
| 14 | Ecuador | 93.16 % | 2022 | up 11.5% | rising |
| 15 | Malaysia | 92.64 % | 2022 | up 4.0% | rising |
| 16 | Sri Lanka | 92.18 % | 2023 | up 1.5% | flat |
| 17 | Paraguay | 91.99 % | 2024 | up 0.7% | flat |
| 18 | Chile | 91.66 % | 2017 | up 0.4% | flat |
| 19 | Colombia | 88.93 % | 2024 | up 2.3% | rising |
| 20 | Mexico | 88.44 % | 2020 | up 5.0% | rising |
| 21 | Thailand | 87.74 % | 2022 | down 4.6% | flat |
| 22 | Dominican Republic | 86.82 % | 2024 | up 1.3% | rising |
| 23 | Peru | 86.15 % | 2020 | up 2.5% | rising |
| 24 | South Africa | 84.75 % | 2024 | down 4.1% | flat |
| 25 | Brazil | 82.54 % | 2018 | up 7.9% | rising |
| 26 | Honduras | 81.98 % | 2024 | up 3.1% | rising |
| 27 | El Salvador | 81.91 % | 2024 | up 4.7% | rising |
| 28 | Bangladesh | 79 % | 2022 | up 56.8% | rising |
| 29 | Tunisia | 76.7 % | 2023 | up 19.2% | rising |
| 30 | Guatemala | 75.38 % | 2024 | up 4.6% | rising |
| 31 | Rwanda | 74.19 % | 2022 | up 13.8% | rising |
| 32 | Cambodia | 65.39 % | 2021 | down 10.0% | flat |
| 33 | Uganda | 64.51 % | 2016 | down 5.1% | flat |
| 34 | Togo | 58.62 % | 2022 | up 23.4% | rising |
| 35 | Pakistan | 48.51 % | 2019 | up 10.2% | rising |
| 36 | Morocco | 46.55 % | 2014 | up 43.3% | rising |
| 37 | Benin | 40.25 % | 2022 | up 22.3% | rising |
| 38 | Senegal | 36.1 % | 2023 | up 17.7% | rising |
| 39 | Burkina Faso | 31.69 % | 2022 | up 35.1% | rising |
| 40 | Niger | 28.38 % | 2022 | up 18.2% | rising |
| 41 | Mali | 25.57 % | 2018 | up 67.8% | rising |
About this data
The Suite of Gender Indicators presents a set of indicators relevant to agrifood systems that are disaggregated by sex, with the aim of highlighting gender differences across agrifood systems. The initial set of indicators is based on those used in FAO’s 2023 Status of Women in Agrifood Systems (SWAFS) report and on the recommendations of an expert consultation held in December 2023, and covers key dimensions including economic participation, governance, agency, social norms, assets and services, education, health, and nutrition. Indicator selection was informed by expert judgment and by the availability of data with sufficient geographic and temporal coverage to enable meaningful comparisons across regions and over time. While most indicators are produced and published by FAO and other international organizations, the objective of this domain is to provide a one-stop shop for sex-disaggregated data on agrifood systems.