World Development Indicators

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

Most recent: 79 (2022)
Earliest: 29.23 (1981)
Highest: 79 (2022)
Years reported: 15 of 42 in the span
Member state: Bangladesh at the United Nations

Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above), 1981–2022. 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 15 of the 42 years between 1981 and 2022 for Bangladesh. The missing 27 are drawn as gaps, because a gap is what they are.

Every year reported

Year	Adult literacy rate
2022	79
2021	76.36
2020	74.91
2019	74.68
2018	73.91
2017	72.89
2016	72.76
2015	65.14
2014	61.09
2013	61.02
2012	57.86
2011	58.77
2001	47.49
1991	35.32
1981	29.23

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