Ghana Literacy Rate 2000-2025

Ghana literacy rate for 2020 was 80.38%, a 8.88% increase from 2010.
  • Ghana literacy rate for 2010 was 71.50%, a 13.6% increase from 2000.
  • Ghana literacy rate for 2000 was 57.90%, a 57.9% increase from .
  • Ghana 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
Kazakhstan 99.80%
Armenia 99.79%
Mongolia 99.18%
Spain 98.59%
Philippines 98.47%
Aruba 97.99%
Saudi Arabia 97.59%
West Bank and Gaza 97.51%
Singapore 97.13%
China 96.74%
Kuwait 96.46%
Seychelles 96.20%
Indonesia 96.00%
Colombia 95.64%
Mexico 95.25%
Paraguay 94.54%
Peru 94.50%
Bolivia 93.85%
Ecuador 93.63%
Sri Lanka 92.38%
El Salvador 89.98%
Eswatini 89.28%
Zambia 87.50%
Ghana 80.38%
Cameroon 78.23%
Bangladesh 74.91%
Timor-Leste 69.90%
Mozambique 59.78%
Central African Republic 37.49%
Mali 30.76%