World Development Indicators

Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above): São Tomé and Príncipe

Most recent: 87.44 (2019)
Earliest: 57.32 (1981)
Highest: 90.14 (2012)
Years reported: 5 of 39 in the span
Member state: São Tomé and Príncipe at the United Nations

Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above), 1981–2019. 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 39 years between 1981 and 2019 for São Tomé and Príncipe. The missing 34 are drawn as gaps, because a gap is what they are.

Every year reported

Year	Adult literacy rate
2019	87.44
2012	90.14
2001	84.91
1991	73.24
1981	57.32

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