Literacy rate — all countries

Literacy rate — Israel

Literacy rate in Israel in 1983 — 91.75%. Ranked 1 in the world out of 2.

1983 91.75%
World rank 1of 2
Period maximum 91.75%1983
Period minimum 91.75%1983

Trend over time

1983–1983 · % of population aged 15+

Change over the period: +0 pp

Comparison, 1983

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

Israel 91.75%
World 69.49%
Literacy rate — Israel, by year Israel All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
1983 91.75

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.