South Africa literacy rate for 2021 was 90.00%, a 5.02% decline from 2019.
South Africa literacy rate for 2019 was 95.02%, a 7.98% increase from 2017.
South Africa literacy rate for 2017 was 87.05%, a 7.32% decline from 2015.
South Africa literacy rate for 2015 was 94.37%, a 0.23% increase from 2014.
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.
