Literacy rate — all countries

Literacy rate — Kenya

Literacy rate in Kenya in 2000 — 82.23%. Ranked 24 in the world out of 44.

2000 82.23%
World rank 24of 44
Period maximum 82.23%2000
Period minimum 82.23%2000

Trend over time

2000–2000 · % of population aged 15+

Change over the period: +0 pp

Comparison, 2000

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

Kenya 82.23%
World 81.12%
Literacy rate — Kenya, by year Kenya All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2000 82.23

Eastern Africa, 2000

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.