Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above)

Dataset SE.ADT.LITR.ZS published by World Bank, World Development Indicators. This page describes the source table. The measures below are the specific selections this site takes from it.

About the source table

Publisher: World Bank, World Development Indicators
Original producer: UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Code: SE.ADT.LITR.ZS
Last update by provider: 8 October 2026
Last checked here: 9 November 2026
Licence (series metadata): CC BY-4.0
Source note: Data API, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), uri: https://databrowser.uis.unesco.org/resources, note: The data are obtained through the UIS API. Detailed documentation is available at: https://api.uis.unesco.org/api/public/documentation/, publisher: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), type: Excel (bulk file), date accessed: 2026-03-19, date published: 2026-02

Definition published with the series

Adult literacy rate is the percentage of people ages 15 and above who can both read and write with understanding a short simple statement about their everyday life.

Measures taken from this dataset

Measure	Fixed selection	Unit
Adult literacy rate	SE.ADT.LITR.ZS	% of people aged 15 and above