Botswana Literacy Rate 1991-2025

Botswana literacy rate for 2013 was 86.82%, a 5.63% increase from 2003.
  • Botswana literacy rate for 2003 was 81.19%, a 12.61% increase from 1991.
  • Botswana literacy rate for 1991 was 68.58%, a 68.58% increase from .
  • Botswana literacy rate for was 0.00%, a 0% increase from .
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.

Literacy Rate

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Annual Change

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Country Rankings
Country Name Literacy Rate
Uzbekistan 99.99%
Azerbaijan 99.79%
Palau 99.50%
Uruguay 98.36%
Spain 98.08%
Qatar 97.48%
Bosnia 96.99%
Singapore 96.55%
Philippines 96.40%
Chile 96.27%
West Bank and Gaza 96.05%
Kuwait 95.59%
Turkey 95.26%
Paraguay 95.06%
Saudi Arabia 94.43%
Mexico 93.96%
Thailand 93.70%
Ecuador 93.29%
Mauritius 91.49%
Brazil 91.48%
Dominican Republic 90.86%
Botswana 86.82%
El Salvador 86.77%
Honduras 85.46%
Iran 84.63%
Guatemala 77.04%
Egypt 72.44%
Mauritania 62.07%
Bangladesh 61.02%
Pakistan 55.60%
Senegal 43.53%
Gambia 41.95%
Sierra Leone 32.43%