Literacy rate — all countries

Literacy rate — CIS

Literacy rate in the CIS in 1989 — 97.92%.

1989 97.92%
World rank
Period maximum 97.92%1989
Period minimum 97.92%1989

Trend over time

1989–1989 · % of population aged 15+

Change over the period: +0 pp

Comparison, 1989

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

CIS 97.92%
World 74.07%
Literacy rate — CIS, by year CIS All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
1989 97.92

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.