Literacy - Adult illiterate population

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Adult illiterate population. Total is the total number of adults over age 15 who cannot both read and write with understanding a short simple statement on their everyday life.

Adult illiterate population (number)

	1970	1990	2000	2005	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2018	2019
Rwanda			15,35,860		20,15,781		19,85,127					19,67,627
Burkina Faso				54,76,265					61,89,473			63,90,995
India						26,55,67,691						25,28,63,750
Sao Tome and Principe							10,029					8,713
Cameroon			27,16,788		33,18,686							33,16,943
Mali					54,72,148	54,44,143				61,28,665		64,22,140
Kazakhstan					26,984							28,584
Russian Federation					3,84,481							3,22,922
Latvia			4,924			1,844						1,793
Belarus												19,131
Malta				24,856		23,335						20,697
El Salvador					6,50,410	6,17,799		5,78,703		5,39,212		5,15,242
Romania						2,36,389						1,90,378
Samoa						1,189						1,094
Costa Rica			1,39,566			90,591						84,024
इस्वातिनी			1,08,118		1,22,953							81,429
Côte d'Ivoire			46,37,002				70,28,905		71,15,720			76,90,587
Indonesia		2,11,98,500				1,25,33,315			89,41,660	89,01,239	87,24,223	85,26,552
China		18,26,58,288	8,64,49,754		5,37,66,856							3,70,38,398
Spain				8,43,939	8,94,837	8,81,504	8,35,310	7,59,798	7,50,894	7,29,349	6,87,340	6,22,751
Tonga						402						390
Brunei Darussalam						11,773						9,199
Italy						5,90,448						4,43,621
Vanuatu												22,361
Greece				6,55,093		2,73,482						1,86,626
Viet Nam			54,01,958									36,69,981
Argentina										6,21,457		3,33,000
Brazil			1,68,51,578		1,42,61,211	1,29,47,175	1,32,60,615	1,32,30,661	1,30,43,857			1,11,67,773
Malaysia			17,64,251		13,99,849							12,33,916
Portugal						4,97,148						3,42,869
Montenegro						7,803						5,920
Panama		1,77,801	1,66,973		1,52,328							1,39,457
Mexico		64,77,263	63,60,064	61,74,652	57,32,686	54,81,717	49,67,269	53,13,960	48,79,200	50,55,690		42,72,530
Singapore		2,59,476	2,28,785		1,73,703	1,64,393	1,60,350	1,56,078	1,51,778	1,49,463	1,41,951	1,28,380
Paraguay					2,55,707				2,43,292	2,27,101		2,93,076
Morocco						78,47,851	72,95,106					68,84,539
Peru				22,58,290			13,37,777		14,08,707	13,23,829	13,42,374	13,34,124
Jordan				2,90,480	3,05,332	1,75,874	92,445					1,16,173
Bahrain					55,070							31,811
Benin							38,15,925					38,09,789
Afghanistan						1,03,72,565						1,20,53,875
Central African Republic			10,64,894		16,59,104							16,27,354
Nepal						69,88,539						62,75,174
Bangladesh						5,55,43,835					3,15,24,724	3,03,92,094	3,00,04,627
Uruguay					50,380	43,776	42,459	43,573	41,899	39,784		35,459
Kuwait				1,14,644	1,32,384		1,19,135	1,25,431		1,33,729		1,29,702
Comoros			95,116				2,18,871					2,07,248
Thailand			34,97,494	33,22,185	19,23,368			34,64,737		39,78,173		35,89,297
Sri Lanka					13,23,104							13,30,811
Mauritius		1,51,046	1,38,107			1,05,879	82,061	85,590	76,449	74,820		90,364
Nigeria												4,17,63,792
Uganda					44,78,554		53,62,233					53,22,655
Kyrgyzstan												17,656
Algeria												54,84,148
Zambia		14,95,924			12,50,951							12,66,166
Gabon							1,77,171					2,04,631
Namibia						1,63,602						1,30,873
Seychelles					4,357							3,064
Timor-Leste					2,58,749							2,51,931
Albania						72,226	63,711					44,114
Uzbekistan			2,11,012					1,060	4,119	3,494		1,662
Oman					2,79,202				2,28,801	2,32,293		1,61,173
फिलिस्तीन					1,18,857	1,15,065	1,03,188	97,049	96,545	92,541	88,649	82,717
Mongolia			34,858		34,541							34,789
Colombia				22,00,414	22,40,364	22,07,124			20,92,842	21,01,738		18,74,652
Eritrea												4,70,454
Suriname					19,712		26,980					23,562
Honduras					7,33,727	7,35,981	7,44,685	7,59,877	6,87,094	6,66,306	6,21,870	8,37,525
Sierra Leone								23,64,079				25,60,844
Ghana			46,20,985		42,02,965							38,93,564
Kenya			30,02,075						54,87,452			57,14,459
Madagascar			25,00,550				36,22,464					39,25,972
Lebanon												2,49,960
Niger				48,87,746			73,66,263					72,90,605
Sudan			60,30,844									97,73,917
Tajikistan			19,400
Turkey		72,64,920		57,93,591	39,42,934	32,33,918	28,47,328	27,15,321	26,65,317	26,18,319
Ukraine							9,941
Barbados	1,078
Bhutan				2,01,307			2,22,941
Bolivia						5,09,051	3,74,415			5,41,403
Burundi		18,30,189	13,99,890						22,74,294
केप वर्दे		68,614					50,703			48,518
Chad			31,32,200							54,04,557	58,84,942
Chile						4,44,192		5,18,913
Democratic Republic of the Congo							93,25,351				97,58,035
Congo						4,91,233						6,01,701
Cuba							23,238
Dominican Republic					7,09,974	6,83,590	6,91,849	6,52,906	5,97,703	5,90,662
Ecuador		7,36,018			8,39,812	8,84,631	8,52,833	7,36,472	6,46,531	6,32,533	6,57,586
Egypt				2,16,37,744	1,56,94,073		1,52,50,076	1,48,04,370
Equatorial Guinea			34,856
Ethiopia				2,89,48,732
Grenada	1,039
Guatemala							20,60,318	22,34,101	18,80,427
Guinea					47,16,458				47,24,630
Guinea Bissau			4,27,273						5,70,981
Guyana									76,807
Iran				90,66,309			95,29,203	90,58,353	91,12,681
Iraq			34,85,578					1,09,06,722
Lesotho			1,48,506						3,15,169
Malawi					30,54,620				31,50,741	35,48,455
Maldives		4,664							3,606
Mauritania			7,52,716
Nicaragua				7,57,787
Pakistan				4,72,95,739	4,85,36,149	5,03,00,662	4,93,13,655	5,19,55,838	5,16,35,852
Puerto Rico		2,65,897			2,37,047
Qatar					56,790	58,906	57,336	45,227	41,600
Saudi Arabia			27,43,671					11,97,791
Senegal						35,52,050		45,75,694
South Africa					25,39,631	24,96,089	23,06,826		22,26,167	21,68,862
South Sudan												41,81,233
United Republic of Tanzania					80,23,249		57,92,364			64,25,458
Togo			12,75,463			14,77,511				15,20,764
Zimbabwe						13,48,713			10,04,336
Angola									42,39,847
Croatia						31,806
Cyprus						11,862
Estonia			2,683			1,278
Gambia			4,20,188					5,77,712
Marshall Islands						550
Republic of Moldova			1,07,464				29,506
Myanmar			32,32,221								96,06,942
San Marino												24
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1,964
Trinidad and Tobago		25,804
Tunisia					17,05,836	16,85,692	16,58,469		17,93,414
United Arab Emirates				3,67,642
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)		12,52,964				10,87,809				7,59,309	6,53,548
Andorra										0	0
Armenia						6,001
Azerbaijan					16,098	15,878	16,353	15,591	15,845	16,145	16,062
Bosnia and Herzegovina			1,02,039			60,264		97,986
Bulgaria						1,04,624
Georgia									13,822
Lao People’s Democratic Republic			9,17,835	9,37,801		16,83,606
Lithuania						4,837
मकाउ						20,838					17,900
Palau								74		505
Papua New Guinea			13,73,923
Philippines		23,49,943	35,46,825					23,71,403
Serbia						1,52,297					85,496

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