Youth 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 ↑	North Korea	100	2008	28
3 ↑	South Korea	99.95	2008	28
4 ↓	Singapore	99.93	2018	3	99.93
4 ↓	Azerbaijan	99.93	2019	2	99.94
6 ↓	Kazakhstan	99.9	2018	4	99.9
6 ↓	Tajikistan	99.9	2014	5	99.85
8 ↓	Turkmenistan	99.8	2014	6	99.81
8 ↑	Macao	99.8	2016	10	99.67
10 ↓	Indonesia	99.78	2020	8	99.71
10 ↑	China	99.78	2018	11	99.64
12 ↓	Kyrgyzstan	99.75	2018	7	99.75
13 ↓	Brunei	99.71	2018	12	99.37
14 ↓	Russia	99.7	2018	8	99.71
15 ↑	Mongolia	99.07	2020	16	98.63
16 ↓	Sri Lanka	98.97	2019	15	98.78
17 ↓	Maldives	98.75	2016	13	99.27
18	Vietnam	98.63	2019	18	97.09
19 ↓	Philippines	98.38	2019	14	99.08
20 ↓	Thailand	98.14	2018	17	98.15
21 ↓	Malaysia	96.78	2019	19	96.85
22 ↑	Burma (Myanmar)	95.42	2019	25	84.75
23 ↓	Bangladesh	94.46	2020	20	94.86
24 ↓	Bhutan	93.09	2017	23	86.06
25 ↑	Laos	92.46	2015	27	72.06
26 ↓	Nepal	92.39	2018	24	84.76
27 ↓	Cambodia	92.21	2015	21	90.14
28 ↓	India	91.66	2018	22	86.14
29 ↓	Pakistan	74.53	2017	26	72.8

Definition of Youth 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.