Literacy rate — all countries

Literacy rate — Tajikistan

Literacy rate in Tajikistan in 2009 — 99.73%. Ranked 3 in the world out of 31. Since 1989, the indicator has risen by 2.04 pp.

2009 99.73% +1.7 pp vs 2007
World rank 3of 31
Period maximum 99.73%2009
Period minimum 97.35%2003

Trend over time

1989–2009 · % of population aged 15+

Literacy rate — Tajikistan, 1989–2009979899100198919911993199519971999200120032005200720091989: 97.69%2000: 99.45%2003: 97.35%2007: 98.03%2009: 99.73%
Change over the period: +2.04 pp Annual average: 0.1 pp

Comparison, 2009

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

Tajikistan 99.73%
World 83.8%
Central Asia computed 99.64%
Literacy rate — Tajikistan, by year Tajikistan All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2009 99.73
2007 98.03
2003 97.35
2000 99.45
1989 97.69

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.