Literacy Rate

Asia Ranking

percentSource: IMF

Current Rank	Country	Value	Latest Reading	Previous Rank	Previous Value

1	Uzbekistan	100	2019	1	99.99
1 ↑	North Korea	100	2008	28
3 ↑	Tajikistan	99.8	2014	5	99.45
3 ↓	Azerbaijan	99.8	2019	2	99.79
5 ↓	Kazakhstan	99.78	2018	3	99.78
6 ↓	Russia	99.73	2018	4	99.68
7	Turkmenistan	99.7	2014	7	98.78
8 ↓	Kyrgyzstan	99.59	2018	6	99.24
9	Mongolia	99.18	2020	9	98.42
10 ↑	South Korea	97.97	2008	28
11 ↓	Maldives	97.73	2016	8	98.61
12 ↓	Singapore	97.34	2018	11	97.2
13 ↓	Brunei	97.21	2018	12	96.09
14 ↑	China	96.84	2018	15	95.12
15 ↓	Macao	96.54	2016	14	95.64
16 ↓	Philippines	96.28	2019	10	98.18
17 ↓	Indonesia	96	2020	13	95.66
18 ↓	Vietnam	95.75	2019	17	93.52
19 ↓	Malaysia	94.97	2019	16	94.85
20 ↓	Thailand	93.77	2018	18	92.87
21 ↓	Sri Lanka	92.25	2019	19	91.71
22 ↓	Burma (Myanmar)	89.07	2019	21	75.55
23 ↑	Laos	84.66	2015	25	58.29
24 ↓	Cambodia	80.53	2015	20	78.06
25 ↓	Bangladesh	74.91	2020	22	74.68
26 ↓	India	74.37	2018	23	69.3
27 ↓	Nepal	67.91	2018	24	59.63
28 ↓	Bhutan	66.56	2017	27	55.32
29 ↓	Pakistan	58	2019	26	57.01

Definition of Literacy Rate

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.