Argentina vs Dominican Republic: Adult literacy

Adult literacy: 99.1% in Argentina in 2020 and 94% in Dominican Republic in 2024, by UNESCO estimates. In 2020 the value was higher in Argentina, by 5.5 percentage points, or 1.06 times that in Dominican Republic.

Watch it change on the map

% of adults · UNESCO

ArgentinaDominican RepublicWorld

What the numbers say

Argentina has been higher in every year both have figures for since 2020.
The world as a whole: 87% in 2020.

Every year

% of adults · UNESCO

Year	Argentina	Dominican Republic	World
2024	–	94	87.7
2023	–	94.3	87.6
2022	–	93.7	87.4
2021	–	93.7	87.2
2020	99.1	93.7	87
2019	–	93.7	86.8
2018	–	93.4	86.8
2017	–	93.2	86.5
2016	–	93.8	86.3
2015	–	92	86
2014	–	91.8	85.6
2013	–	90.9	85.2
2012	–	90.2	84.9
2011	–	90.1	84.7
2010	–	89.5	84.4
2009	–	–	83.8
2008	–	–	83.5
2007	–	88.2	83.1
2006	–	–	82.5
2005	–	–	82.6
2004	–	–	82.6
2003	–	–	82.2
2002	–	87	81.7
2001	97.2	–	81.4
2000	–	–	81.1
1999	–	–	80.9
1998	–	–	80.5
1997	–	–	79.3
1996	–	–	77.3
1995	–	–	76.9
1994	–	–	76.4
1993	–	–	76
1992	–	–	75.5
1991	96	–	75.1
1990	–	–	74.6
1989	–	–	74.1
1988	–	–	73.6
1987	–	–	71.9
1986	–	–	71.3
1985	–	–	70.7
1984	–	–	70.2
1983	–	–	69.5
1982	–	–	68.9
1981	–	73.1	68.4
1980	93.9	–	67.8
1979	–	–	67.2
1978	–	–	66.5
1977	–	–	65.9
1976	–	–	65.6
1975	–	–	65.4

Each country on its own

Good to know

The share of people aged 15 and over who can read and write a short, simple statement about their everyday life.
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics, via the World Bank.
The faint line is the world as a whole, as the same source counts it.

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