Literacy rate — all countries

Literacy rate — Brunei Darussalam

Literacy rate in Brunei Darussalam in 2011 — 96.09%. Ranked 22 in the world out of 53. Since 1981, the indicator has risen by 18.35 pp.

2011 96.09% +3.42 pp vs 2001
World rank 22of 53
Period maximum 96.09%2011
Period minimum 77.74%1981

Trend over time

1981–2011 · % of population aged 15+

Literacy rate — Brunei Darussalam, 1981–20117580859095100198119841987199019931996199920022005200820111981: 77.74%1991: 87.8%2001: 92.67%2011: 96.09%
Change over the period: +18.35 pp Annual average: 0.61 pp

Comparison, 2011

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

Brunei Darussalam 96.09%
World 84.71%
Literacy rate — Brunei Darussalam, by year Brunei Darussalam All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2011 96.09
2001 92.67
1991 87.8
1981 77.74

South-Eastern Asia, 2011

The same indicator for neighboring countries — with links to their pages

SG Singapore 96.19 BN Brunei Darussalam 96.09 ID Indonesia 92.81

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.