Bangladesh vs Colombia: Adult literacy

Adult literacy: 79% in Bangladesh in 2022 and 95.3% in Colombia in 2024, by UNESCO estimates. In 2022 the value was higher in Colombia, by 16.3 percentage points, or 1.21 times that in Bangladesh.

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% of adults · UNESCO

BangladeshColombiaWorld

What the numbers say

Colombia has been higher in every year both have figures for since 2011.
The world as a whole: 87.4% in 2022.

Every year

% of adults · UNESCO

Year	Bangladesh	Colombia	World
2024	–	95.3	87.7
2023	–	95.5	87.6
2022	79	95.3	87.4
2021	76.4	95.7	87.2
2020	74.9	95.6	87
2019	74.7	95.3	86.8
2018	73.9	95.1	86.8
2017	72.9	94.9	86.5
2016	72.8	94.7	86.3
2015	65.1	94.3	86
2014	61.1	94.2	85.6
2013	61	–	85.2
2012	57.9	–	84.9
2011	58.8	93.6	84.7
2010	–	93.4	84.4
2009	–	93.2	83.8
2008	–	93.4	83.5
2007	–	92.7	83.1
2006	–	92.3	82.5
2005	–	92.9	82.6
2004	–	92.8	82.6
2003	–	–	82.2
2002	–	–	81.7
2001	47.5	–	81.4
2000	–	–	81.1
1999	–	–	80.9
1998	–	–	80.5
1997	–	–	79.3
1996	–	91.2	77.3
1995	–	–	76.9
1994	–	–	76.4
1993	–	91.1	76
1992	–	–	75.5
1991	35.3	–	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	29.2	–	68.4
1980	–	–	67.8
1979	–	–	67.2
1978	–	–	66.5
1977	–	–	65.9
1976	–	–	65.6
1975	–	–	65.4

Each country on its own

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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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