World Development Indicators

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

Most recent: 41.57 (2023)
Earliest: 8.83 (1975)
Highest: 41.57 (2023)
Years reported: 13 of 49 in the span
Member state: Burkina Faso at the United Nations

Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above), 1975–2023. 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 13 of the 49 years between 1975 and 2023 for Burkina Faso. The missing 36 are drawn as gaps, because a gap is what they are.

Every year reported

Year	Adult literacy rate
2023	41.57
2022	40.92
2021	36.97
2019	29.66
2018	39.35
2014	34.6
2007	27.88
2006	22.47
2005	23.52
2003	21.82
1996	12.85
1991	13.57
1975	8.83

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