Spinning up the globe & fetching literacy data…

Global Tracker

Youth Literacy
Around the World

Share of 15–24-year-olds who can read and write, for every country. Drag to spin, scroll to zoom, click a pin for detail.

Indicator: Literacy rate, youth total — % of people ages 15–24
Source: World Bank Open Data · updating…

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Literacy rate

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Pulsing ring = lowest rates (<70%)

Faded pins are high-income countries the World Bank does not survey (youth literacy assumed ≈99%).

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