Literacy rate — all countries

Literacy rate — Central Asia

Literacy rate in Central Asia in 2009 — 99.64%.

2009 99.64%
World rank
Period maximum 99.64%2009
Period minimum 99.64%2009

Trend over time

2009–2009 · % of population aged 15+

Change over the period: +0 pp

Comparison, 2009

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

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

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.