Literacy rate — all countries

Literacy rate — Comoros

Literacy rate in the Comoros in 2021 — 75.62%. Ranked 34 in the world out of 44. Since 1980, the indicator has risen by 27.7 pp.

2021 75.62% +1.97 pp vs 2014
World rank 34of 44
Period maximum 75.62%2021
Period minimum 47.92%1980

Trend over time

1980–2021 · % of population aged 15+

Literacy rate — Comoros, 1980–202140506070801980198519901995200020052010201520201980: 47.92%2000: 68.25%2014: 73.65%2021: 75.62%
Change over the period: +27.7 pp Annual average: 0.68 pp

Comparison, 2021

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

Comoros 75.62%
World 87.17%
Literacy rate — Comoros, by year Comoros All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2021 75.62
2014 73.65
2000 68.25
1980 47.92

Eastern Africa, 2021

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.