Latin America & the Caribbean: adult literacy rate 2020, by gender

Published by Statista Research Department, Aug 17, 2023
In 2020, the share of women aged 15 or older who could read and write in Latin America and the Caribbean amounted to 93.71 percent, around 0.82 percentage point lower than the literacy rate among adult men. This region's adult literacy rate averaged at 94.12 percent in 2020.

Average adult literacy rate in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2020, by gender

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Release date

October 2022

Region

LAC

Survey time period

2020

Age group

15 years and older

Supplementary notes

Data for male and female literacy rate can be found here and here.

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