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Youth literacy in Zimbabwe

In Zimbabwe, 92.5% of people aged 15 to 24 could read and write in 2019.

Measure: Youth literacy rate, ages 15 to 24 Unit: % of people aged 15 to 24 Data: 1982 to 2019 Source: UNESCO UIS
The latest value for Zimbabwe is for 2019. Most countries have figures for 2022.
Zimbabwe, 2019 92.5% % of people aged 15 to 24
Change from 1992 −2.9percentage points 1992: 95.4%

Youth literacy in Zimbabwe over time

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% 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 2019
Period Zimbabwe
2019 92.5%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

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In short

  • The previous available figure was 95.4% in 1992, a change of −2.9 percentage points.
  • Since 1982, when it was 89.0%, the figure has changed by +3.5 percentage points.

More for Zimbabwe

All statistics for Zimbabwe
Adult literacy rate 93.2% 2019 · World Bank ILO estimate of the youth NEET rate 30.1% 2025 · ILOSTAT Primary completion (UIS) 88.8% 2019 · UNESCO UIS Lower secondary completion 72.4% 2015 · UNESCO UIS Upper secondary completion 14.0% 2019 · UNESCO UIS Out-of-school children 10.5% 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
1982 to 2019 for Zimbabwe
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