World Development Indicators

Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above): Sri Lanka

Most recent: 92.74 (2024)
Earliest: 86.78 (1981)
Highest: 92.74 (2024)
Years reported: 16 of 44 in the span
Member state: Sri Lanka at the United Nations

Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above), 1981–2024. Bars, not a line: a line drawn across a year the source does not report would invent an observation a reader could not tell from a measured one.

The World Bank reports 16 of the 44 years between 1981 and 2024 for Sri Lanka. The missing 28 are drawn as gaps, because a gap is what they are.

Every year reported

Year	Adult literacy rate
2024	92.74
2023	92.66
2022	92.49
2021	92.43
2020	92.38
2019	92.25
2018	91.71
2017	91.9
2016	92.39
2015	92.5538
2014	92.5347
2010	91.18
2008	90.56
2006	90.81
2001	90.68
1981	86.78

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