PiSpace Open Data
EN
Explore Topics Countries Compare Sources Country rankings Inflation calculator Biggest changes Coverage and freshness Scatter plots Country pairs My list

Youth literacy in Vanuatu

In Vanuatu, 93.9% of people aged 15 to 24 could read and write in 2023.

Measure: Youth literacy rate, ages 15 to 24 Unit: % of people aged 15 to 24 Data: 1979 to 2023 Source: UNESCO UIS
Vanuatu, 2023 93.9% % of people aged 15 to 24
Change from 2020 +5.3percentage points 2020: 88.7%

Youth literacy in Vanuatu over time

View

Showing: Total

Places
1 selected
Countries
Vanuatu

% of people aged 15 to 24. Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), databrowser.uis.unesco.org. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

Youth literacy rate, ages 15 to 24 (% of people aged 15 to 24), 2019 to 2023
Period Vanuatu
2023 93.9%
2020 88.7%
2019 96.2%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

Download CSV (this selection) Jump to table

In short

  • The previous available figure was 88.7% in 2020, a change of +5.3 percentage points.
  • Since 1979, when it was 71.8%, the figure has changed by +22.1 percentage points.

More for Vanuatu

All statistics for Vanuatu
Adult literacy rate 88.0% 2023 · World Bank ILO estimate of the youth NEET rate 34.8% 2025 · ILOSTAT Primary completion (UIS) 81.5% 2023 · UNESCO UIS Lower secondary completion 49.5% 2023 · UNESCO UIS Upper secondary completion 23.1% 2023 · UNESCO UIS Out-of-school children 2.5% 2024 · UNESCO UIS

Source and dates

Original producer
UNESCO UIS
Source
UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
Dataset or series code
LR.AG15T24 · dataset details · view at source
Observation period
1979 to 2023 for Vanuatu
Provider update
Not stated by the provider
Retrieved
9 November 2026
Published here
9 November 2026
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Attribution
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), databrowser.uis.unesco.org