Literacy rate — all countries

Literacy rate — Lebanon

Literacy rate in Lebanon in 2019 — 92.01%. Ranked 32 in the world out of 56. Since 2007, the indicator has risen by 2.4 pp.

2019 92.01% −0.66 pp vs 2018
World rank 32of 56
Period maximum 92.67%2018
Period minimum 89.61%2007

Trend over time

2007–2019 · % of population aged 15+

Literacy rate — Lebanon, 2007–2019899091929320072009201120132015201720192007: 89.61%2009: 91.18%2018: 92.67%2019: 92.01%
Change over the period: +2.4 pp Annual average: 0.2 pp

Comparison, 2019

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

Lebanon 92.01%
World 86.79%
Literacy rate — Lebanon, by year Lebanon All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2019 92.01 −0.66 pp
2018 92.67
2009 91.18
2007 89.61

Western Asia, 2019

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.