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Literacy Rate

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The percentage of the population, age 15 years or older, who has the ability to read, write, and use arithmetic. Some countries, such as the United States, Canada, and Australia do not report these rates to UNESCO.

World Bank

A world map shows literacy rates. Dark purple (more than 98 percent): Russia, Argentina, Poland, Ukraine, and Mongolia. Purple to light purple (70 to 98 percent): China, Brazil, India. Very light purple (less than 70 percent): Countries in central Africa.

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Countries

Literacy Rate

Per Capita Gross Domestic Product (North America)

Tourism Revenues

Prevailing Agricultural Practices

Class

Rank

Percent

Class

Rank

US dollars

Class

Rank

Millions of U.S. dollars

Commercial gardening

Dairy

Grain

Intensive subsistence, wet rice dominant

Intensive subsistence, wet rice not dominant

Little or no agriculture

Livestock Ranching

Mediterranean

Mixed crop and livestock

Pastoral nomadism

Plantation

Shifting cultivation

2.71%25.1%8.01%4.80%3.15%
14.9%92.5%15.5%28.7%96.8%
3.54%9.38%1.03%9.81%66.2%12.9%43.8%
17.4%17.8%4.09%16.3%54.9%44.6%
1.72%4.22%2.10%65.0%7.72%74.7%1.08%
1.03%24.9%47.2%17.6%47.9%26.5%47.9%2.93%6.57%
6.42%9.10%9.93%6.18%27.6%14.8%2.39%3.76%18.7%
1.57%98.0%57.2%58.2%7.51%11.3%
1.23%1.41%1.82%7.94%12.8%4.70%1.32%22.5%1.32%
19.4%10.5%8.26%13.3%2.97%1.06%
11.4%28.3%2.01%9.82%15.2%
1.78%31.4%14.6%12.2%53.5%
18.6%17.4%8.03%7.51%19.5%13.3%5.87%36.9%4.32%53.4%
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