World Development Indicators

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

Most recent: 88.92 (2023)
Earliest: 36.52 (1976)
Highest: 88.92 (2023)
Years reported: 23 of 48 in the span
Member state: Iran at the United Nations

Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above), 1976–2023. 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 23 of the 48 years between 1976 and 2023 for Iran. The missing 25 are drawn as gaps, because a gap is what they are.

Every year reported

Year	Adult literacy rate
2023	88.92
2022	88.59
2021	88.46
2020	87.9
2019	87.38
2018	86.87
2017	85.95
2016	85.54
2015	85.28
2014	84.71
2013	84.63
2012	83.63
2011	83.52
2010	83.66
2009	83.22
2008	82.96
2006	82.33
2005	82.44
2002	77
1996	73.06
1991	65.53
1986	52.32
1976	36.52

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