Literacy rate — all countries

Literacy rate — Solomon Islands

Literacy rate in the Solomon Islands in 1999 — 76.6%. Ranked 7 in the world out of 9.

1999 76.6%
World rank 7of 9
Period maximum 76.6%1999
Period minimum 76.6%1999

Trend over time

1999–1999 · % of population aged 15+

Change over the period: +0 pp

Comparison, 1999

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

Solomon Islands 76.6%
World 80.9%
Literacy rate — Solomon Islands, by year Solomon Islands All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
1999 76.6

Melanesia, 1999

The same indicator for neighboring countries — with links to their pages

SB Solomon Islands 76.6 VU Vanuatu 74

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.