World Development Indicators

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

Most recent: 58.86 (2021)
Earliest: 25.73 (1981)
Highest: 59.13 (2017)
Years reported: 16 of 41 in the span
Member state: Pakistan at the United Nations

Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above), 1981–2021. 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 16 of the 41 years between 1981 and 2021 for Pakistan. The missing 25 are drawn as gaps, because a gap is what they are.

Every year reported

Year	Adult literacy rate
2021	58.86
2019	58
2018	57.01
2017	59.13
2014	56.98
2013	55.59
2012	56.76
2011	54.74
2010	55.38
2009	54.89
2008	55.53
2007	52.14
2006	54.15
2005	49.87
1998	42.7
1981	25.73

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