Literacy rate — all countries

Literacy rate — Trinidad and Tobago

Literacy rate in Trinidad and Tobago in 1990 — 96.94%. Ranked 2 in the world out of 17. Since 1980, the indicator has risen by 1.97 pp.

1990 96.94% +1.97 pp vs 1980
World rank 2of 17
Period maximum 96.94%1990
Period minimum 94.97%1980

Trend over time

1980–1990 · % of population aged 15+

Literacy rate — Trinidad and Tobago, 1980–199094.59595.59696.597198019811982198319841985198619871988198919901980: 94.97%1990: 96.94%
Change over the period: +1.97 pp Annual average: 0.2 pp

Comparison, 1990

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

Trinidad and Tobago 96.94%
World 74.63%
Literacy rate — Trinidad and Tobago, by year Trinidad and Tobago All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
1990 96.94
1980 94.97

Caribbean, 1990

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

TT Trinidad and Tobago 96.94 PR Puerto Rico 89.62

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.