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Adult literacy rate as a share of the population in Africa in 2024, by selected country

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Release date

April 2026

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Region

Africa

Survey time period

2024

Age group

15 years and older

Supplementary notes

Data as of 1994 for: Libya.
Data as of 2010 for: Equatorial Guinea.
Data as of 2013 for: Botswana.
Data as of 2017 for: Liberia.
Data as of 2018 for: Algeria, Eritrea, South Sudan, and Sudan.
Data as of 2020 for: Cameroon, Central African Republic, and Seychelles.
Data as of 2021 for: Congo (Congo Brazzaville), Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, and Mauritania.
Data as of 2022 for: Benin, Burundi, Chad, Comoros, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Morocco, Mozambique, Niger, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, and Zimbabwe.
Data as of 2023 for: Angola, Burkina Faso, Congo (Congo Kinshasa), Mauritius, Namibia, Senegal, and Tunisia.
Data as of 2024 for: Cape Verde, Lesotho, Mali, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, and Zambia.

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In 2020, the Seychelles ranked first by rate of adult literacy as share of the country's population 15 years and above among the 53 countries presented in the ranking. Seychelles' rate of adult literacy amounted to percent, while Equatorial Guinea (2010) and Mauritius (2023), the second and third countries, had records amounting to percent and percent, respectively.