Literacy rate — all countries

Literacy rate — Cayman Islands

Literacy rate in the Cayman Islands in 2017 — 98.87%. Ranked 5 in the world out of 44.

2017 98.87% +0 pp vs 2007
World rank 5of 44
Period maximum 98.87%2007
Period minimum 98.87%2007

Trend over time

2007–2017 · % of population aged 15+

Literacy rate — Cayman Islands, 2007–20178090100110200720082009201020112012201320142015201620172007: 98.87%2017: 98.87%
Change over the period: +0 pp Annual average: 0 pp

Comparison, 2017

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

Cayman Islands 98.87%
World 86.47%
Literacy rate — Cayman Islands, by year Cayman Islands All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2017 98.87
2007 98.87

Caribbean, 2017

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

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.