Arab Region | Literacy rate, age group 15+, male (All Arab Countries, 1991-2021)
Adult literacy rate is the percentage of people ages 15 and above who can both read and write with understanding a short simple statement about their everyday life.
Publisher
Arab Development Portal
Origin
Arab Region
Records
128
Source
| Location |
value
Min
Max
|
Year |
|---|---|---|
| Egypt | 67.15 | 1996 |
| Egypt | 74.62 | 2006 |
| Egypt | 80.27 | 2010 |
| Egypt | 81.68 | 2012 |
| Egypt | 81.69 | 2013 |
| Egypt | 78.78 | 2021 |
| Lebanon | 93.38 | 2007 |
| Lebanon | 94.27 | 2009 |
| Lebanon | 96.85 | 2018 |
| Lebanon | 97.01 | 2019 |
| Syria | 91.03 | 2002 |
| Syria | 87.76 | 2004 |
| Syria | 91.6 | 2014 |
| United Arab Emirates | 98.81 | 2021 |
| Morocco | 55.16 | 1994 |
| Morocco | 65.71 | 2004 |
| Morocco | 68.37 | 2008 |
| Morocco | 68.92 | 2009 |
| Morocco | 76.07 | 2011 |
| Morocco | 75.37 | 2014 |
| Morocco | 83.3 | 2018 |
| Morocco | 84.81 | 2021 |
| Palestine | 92.25 | 1997 |
| Palestine | 97.08 | 2006 |
| Palestine | 97.1 | 2007 |
| Palestine | 97.2 | 2008 |
| Palestine | 97.53 | 2010 |
| Palestine | 97.74 | 2011 |
| Palestine | 98.07 | 2012 |
| Palestine | 98.27 | 2013 |
| Palestine | 98.38 | 2015 |
| Palestine | 98.51 | 2016 |
| Palestine | 98.53 | 2017 |
| Palestine | 98.8 | 2019 |
| Palestine | 98.79 | 2020 |
| Bahrain | 88.54 | 1991 |
| Bahrain | 88.55 | 2001 |
| Bahrain | 93.1 | 2011 |
| Jordan | 95.08 | 2003 |
| Jordan | 95.18 | 2005 |
| Jordan | 95.49 | 2007 |
| Jordan | 95.77 | 2010 |
| Jordan | 97.75 | 2011 |
| Qatar | 84.24 | 1997 |
| Qatar | 89.96 | 2007 |
| Qatar | 91.44 | 2008 |
| Qatar | 91.37 | 2009 |
| Qatar | 91.75 | 2010 |
| Qatar | 90 | 2012 |
| Qatar | 90.34 | 2013 |
| Qatar | 91.05 | 2014 |
| Qatar | 93.14 | 2017 |
| Saudi Arabia | 79.97 | 1992 |
| Saudi Arabia | 87.06 | 2000 |
| Saudi Arabia | 87.53 | 2004 |
| Saudi Arabia | 96.53 | 2013 |
| Saudi Arabia | 97.1 | 2017 |
| Saudi Arabia | 98.62 | 2020 |
| Comoros | 74.51 | 2000 |
| Comoros | 56.48 | 2012 |
| Comoros | 64.64 | 2018 |
| Kuwait | 81.12 | 1995 |
| Kuwait | 94.45 | 2005 |
| Kuwait | 95.84 | 2012 |
| Kuwait | 96.35 | 2013 |
| Kuwait | 96.7 | 2017 |
| Kuwait | 96.67 | 2018 |
| Kuwait | 97.05 | 2020 |
| Oman | 86.86 | 2003 |
| Oman | 90 | 2008 |
| Oman | 90.24 | 2010 |
| Oman | 96.63 | 2015 |
| Oman | 97.02 | 2017 |
| Oman | 96.99 | 2018 |
| Sudan | 71.58 | 2000 |
| Sudan | 59.8 | 2008 |
| Sudan | 65.44 | 2018 |
| Algeria | 79.19 | 2002 |
| Algeria | 81.28 | 2006 |
| Algeria | 82.62 | 2008 |
| Algeria | 87.42 | 2018 |
| Iraq | 85.9 | 2012 |
| Iraq | 81.4 | 2013 |
| Iraq | 90 | 2014 |
| Iraq | 90 | 2016 |
| Mauritania | 59.54 | 2000 |
| Mauritania | 57.4 | 2007 |
| Mauritania | 67.96 | 2013 |
| Mauritania | 63.75 | 2017 |
| Mauritania | 71.78 | 2021 |
| Tunisia | 83.39 | 2004 |
| Tunisia | 86.05 | 2007 |
| Tunisia | 86.38 | 2008 |
| Tunisia | 87.38 | 2010 |
| Tunisia | 88.48 | 2012 |
| Tunisia | 86.06 | 2014 |
| Yemen | 56.72 | 1994 |
| Yemen | 73.16 | 2004 |
| Libya | 87.72 | 1994 |
| Libya | 93.85 | 2004 |
Arab Region | Literacy rate, age group 15+, male (All Arab Countries, 1991-2021)
Adult literacy rate is the percentage of people ages 15 and above who can both read and write with understanding a short simple statement about their everyday life.
Publisher
Arab Development Portal
Origin
Arab Region
Records
128
Source