Female Literacy Rate

Asia Ranking

ages 15-24Source: IMF

Current Rank	Country	Value	Latest Reading	Previous Rank	Previous Value

1	Uzbekistan	100	2019	1	100
1 ↑	South Korea	100	2008	28
1 ↑	North Korea	100	2008	28
4 ↓	Singapore	99.94	2019	2	99.94
5 ↓	Azerbaijan	99.91	2019	3	99.91
6 ↓	Tajikistan	99.9	2014	4	99.85
6	Turkmenistan	99.9	2014	6	99.81
8 ↑	Macao	99.87	2016	10	99.69
9 ↓	Kazakhstan	99.85	2018	4	99.85
10 ↓	Kyrgyzstan	99.81	2018	7	99.8
11 ↑	Brunei	99.79	2018	12	99.55
12 ↓	Indonesia	99.78	2020	9	99.7
12 ↓	China	99.78	2018	11	99.59
14 ↓	Russia	99.75	2018	8	99.76
15	Mongolia	99.23	2020	15	99.08
16	Sri Lanka	99.21	2019	16	99.04
17 ↓	Maldives	99.09	2016	13	99.44
18 ↓	Philippines	98.89	2019	14	99.27
19 ↓	Thailand	98.59	2018	17	98.29
20 ↓	Vietnam	98.54	2019	19	96.78
21 ↓	Malaysia	96.98	2019	18	97.02
22 ↓	Bangladesh	95.86	2020	20	96.09
23 ↓	Burma (Myanmar)	95.55	2019	22	84.41
24 ↓	Bhutan	92.89	2017	23	82.18
25 ↓	Cambodia	92.57	2015	21	90.37
26 ↓	Nepal	90.88	2018	25	80.21
27 ↓	Laos	90.5	2015	26	67.05
28 ↓	India	90.17	2018	24	81.85
29 ↓	Pakistan	65.19	2019	27	64.35

Definition of Female Literacy Rate

Youth literacy rate is the percentage of people ages 15-24 who can both read and write with understanding a short simple statement about their everyday life.