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

Indicator id: literacy_rate_adult · Unit: % · Coverage: 1981-2021

Percentage of people ages 15 and above who can, with understanding, read and write a short, simple statement about their everyday life.

Sources

• World Bank (preferred) -- dataset WDI, code SE.ADT.LITR.ZS (https://data.worldbank.org)
• UNESCO Institute for Statistics -- dataset UIS, code LR.AG15T99 (https://uis.unesco.org)

Reconciliation note: UIS (LR.AG15T99, "Literacy rate, population 15+ years, both sexes") is the upstream compiler UIS_EST/NAT_EST source the World Bank republishes as SE.ADT.LITR.ZS -- the two are expected to closely agree in years both report. Genuine disagreement (rather than one simply having a value the other lacks) is the signal worth surfacing, since it would mean the Bank's copy has drifted from UIS's own latest revision.

Caveats

Self-reported or assessed in irregular census/survey years, not annual; Nepal has seen large gains since the 1980s from a low base.

Taxonomy

SDG: SDG 4.6 -- Ensure all youth and a substantial proportion of adults achieve literacy and numeracy
Topic: Education
Themes: education

Also known as

"literacy rate", "adult literacy", "how literate is Nepal", "literacy"

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