World Development Indicators

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

Most recent: 37.27 (2021)
Earliest: 18.16 (1979)
Highest: 37.27 (2021)
Years reported: 5 of 43 in the span
Member state: Afghanistan at the United Nations

Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above), 1979–2021. 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 5 of the 43 years between 1979 and 2021 for Afghanistan. The missing 38 are drawn as gaps, because a gap is what they are.

Every year reported

Year	Adult literacy rate
2021	37.27
2020	36.015
2015	33.75
2011	31.45
1979	18.16

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