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Sub-Saharan Africa Compared by Education > Literacy rate > People aged 15-24

DEFINITION: Youth literacy rate is the percentage of people ages 15-24 who can, with understanding, read and write a short, simple statement on their everyday life.".

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# COUNTRY AMOUNT DATE GRAPH HISTORY
1 Seychelles 99.06 2008
2 Zimbabwe 98.9 2008
3 Cape Verde 98 2008
4 Equatorial Guinea 97.8 2008
5 Gabon 97.4 2008
6 South Africa 96.8 2008
7 Mauritius 96.4 2008
8 Sao Tome and Principe 95.2 2008
9 Botswana 95.1 2008
10 Swaziland 93.2 2008
11 Namibia 92.9 2008
12 Kenya 92.3 2008
13 Lesotho 91.9 2008
14 Eritrea 87.8 2008
15 Uganda 87.3 2008
16 Cameroon 85.8 2008
17 Malawi 85.7 2008
18 Sudan 85.2 2008
19 Comoros 84.9 2008
20 Togo 83.5 2008
21 Ghana 79.3 2008
22 Tanzania 77.5 2008
23 Rwanda 77.1 2008
24 Burundi 75.9 2008
=25 Liberia 74.8 2008
=25 Zambia 74.8 2008
27 Angola 72.9 2008
28 Nigeria 71.5 2008
29 Madagascar 70.24 2008
30 Mozambique 69.9 2008
31 Guinea-Bissau 69.6 2008
32 Mauritania 67 2008
33 Cote d'Ivoire 66.1 2008
34 Democratic Republic of the Congo 65.3 2008
35 Central African Republic 64.2 2008
36 The Gambia 64.1 2008
37 Guinea 58.7 2008
38 Sierra Leone 55.7 2008
39 Benin 53.3 2008
40 Senegal 50.85 2006
41 Ethiopia 49.9 2008
42 Chad 45.4 2008
43 Burkina Faso 39.26 2007
44 Mali 38.82 2006
45 Niger 36.55 2005

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