Mauritania Literacy Rate 2000-2025

Mauritania literacy rate for 2021 was 66.96%, a 4.89% increase from 2013.
  • Mauritania literacy rate for 2013 was 62.07%, a 16.56% increase from 2007.
  • Mauritania literacy rate for 2007 was 45.50%, a 5.7% decline from 2000.
  • Mauritania literacy rate for 2000 was 51.21%, a 51.21% 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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