Literacy rate — all countries

Literacy rate — Uzbekistan

Literacy rate in Uzbekistan in 2022 — 100%. Ranked 1 in the world out of 45. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 1.36 pp.

2022 100% +0 pp vs 2021
World rank 1of 45
Period maximum 100%2019
Period minimum 98.64%2000

Trend over time

2000–2022 · % of population aged 15+

Literacy rate — Uzbekistan, 2000–202298.59999.5100200020032006200920122015201820212000: 98.64%2013: 99.99%2014: 99.98%2015: 99.98%2016: 99.99%2018: 99.99%2019: 100%2021: 100%2022: 100%
Change over the period: +1.36 pp Annual average: 0.06 pp

Comparison, 2022

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

Uzbekistan 100%
World 87.39%
Literacy rate — Uzbekistan, by year Uzbekistan All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2022 100 +0 pp
2021 100
2019 100 +0.01 pp
2018 99.99
2016 99.99 +0.01 pp
2015 99.98 +0 pp
2014 99.98 −0.01 pp
2013 99.99
2000 98.64

Central Asia, 2022

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

UZ Uzbekistan 100 TM Turkmenistan 99.9

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.