Literacy rate — all countries

Literacy rate — Yemen

Literacy rate in Yemen in 1994 — 37.09%. Ranked 6 in the world out of 7.

1994 37.09%
World rank 6of 7
Period maximum 37.09%1994
Period minimum 37.09%1994

Trend over time

1994–1994 · % of population aged 15+

Change over the period: +0 pp

Comparison, 1994

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

Yemen 37.09%
World 76.42%
Literacy rate — Yemen, by year Yemen All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
1994 37.09

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.