Literacy rate — all countries

Literacy rate — ASEAN

Literacy rate in ASEAN in 2019 — 93.78%. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 2.93 pp.

2019 93.78% −1.12 pp vs 2015
World rank
Period maximum 94.91%2015
Period minimum 90.85%2000

Trend over time

2000–2019 · % of population aged 15+

Literacy rate — ASEAN, 2000–201990929496200020022004200620082010201220142016201820192000: 90.85%2015: 94.91%2019: 93.78%
Change over the period: +2.93 pp Annual average: 0.15 pp

Comparison, 2019

How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: ASEAN

ASEAN 93.78%
World 86.79%
Literacy rate — ASEAN, by year ASEAN All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2019 93.78
2015 94.91
2000 90.85

About the indicator

The share of the population aged 15 and older able to read and write a short simple statement about their everyday life. The UNESCO definition is deliberately minimal — it is the threshold of functional literacy, not an assessment of the quality of education. In most countries the data come from censuses and surveys, so they are updated irregularly.

Important: The series is incomplete: values are published only for the years in which a census or a literacy survey was conducted.

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), license CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.