| Rank | Country | male | Literacy |
| World | 88.30 | definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 83.7%
male: 88.3%
female: 79.2%
note: over two-thirds of the world's 793 million illiterate adults are found in only eight countries (Bangladesh, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Pakistan); of all the illiterate adults in the world, two-thirds are women; extremely low literacy rates are concentrated in three regions, the Arab states, South and West Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa, where around one-third of the men and half of all women are illiterate (2005-09 est.) |
133 | South Africa | 87.00 | definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 86.4%
male: 87%
female: 85.7% (2003 est.) |
134 | Mexico | 86.90 | definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 86.1%
male: 86.9%
female: 85.3% (2005 Census) |
135 | Dominican Republic | 86.80 | definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 87%
male: 86.8%
female: 87.2% (2002 census) |
136 | Namibia | 86.80 | definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 85%
male: 86.8%
female: 83.5% (2001 census) |
137 | Oman | 86.80 | definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 81.4%
male: 86.8%
female: 73.5% (2003 census) |
138 | Zambia | 86.80 | definition: age 15 and over can read and write English
total population: 80.6%
male: 86.8%
female: 74.8% (2003 est.) |
139 | Syria | 86.00 | definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 79.6%
male: 86%
female: 73.6% (2004 census) |
140 | Cape Verde | 85.80 | definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 76.6%
male: 85.8%
female: 69.2% (2003 est.) |
141 | Cambodia | 84.70 | definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 73.6%
male: 84.7%
female: 64.1% (2004 est.) |
142 | Saudi Arabia | 84.70 | definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 78.8%
male: 84.7%
female: 70.8% (2003 est.) |
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