Literacy rate — all countries

Literacy rate — Kyrgyzstan

Literacy rate in Kyrgyzstan in 2009 — 99.24%. Ranked 5 in the world out of 31. Since 1999, the indicator has risen by 0.54 pp.

2009 99.24% +0.54 pp vs 1999
World rank 5of 31
Period maximum 99.24%2009
Period minimum 98.7%1999

Trend over time

1999–2009 · % of population aged 15+

Literacy rate — Kyrgyzstan, 1999–200998.698.89999.299.4199920002001200220032004200520062007200820091999: 98.7%2009: 99.24%
Change over the period: +0.54 pp Annual average: 0.05 pp

Comparison, 2009

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

Kyrgyzstan 99.24%
World 83.8%
Central Asia computed 99.64%
Literacy rate — Kyrgyzstan, by year Kyrgyzstan All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2009 99.24
1999 98.7

Central Asia, 2009

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.