Burkina Faso vs Côte d’Ivoire: Adult literacy

Adult literacy: 41.6% in Burkina Faso in 2023 and 50% in Côte d’Ivoire in 2021, by UNESCO estimates. In 2021 the value was higher in Côte d’Ivoire, by 13 percentage points, or 1.35 times that in Burkina Faso.

Watch it change on the map

% of adults · UNESCO

Burkina FasoCôte d’IvoireWorld

What the numbers say

Côte d’Ivoire has been higher in every year both have figures for since 2014.
The world as a whole: 87.2% in 2021.

Every year

% of adults · UNESCO

Year	Burkina Faso	Côte d’Ivoire	World
2024	–	–	87.7
2023	41.6	–	87.6
2022	40.9	–	87.4
2021	37	50	87.2
2020	–	–	87
2019	29.7	57	86.8
2018	39.4	–	86.8
2017	–	–	86.5
2016	–	50	86.3
2015	–	–	86
2014	34.6	43.9	85.6
2013	–	–	85.2
2012	–	–	84.9
2011	–	–	84.7
2010	–	–	84.4
2009	–	–	83.8
2008	–	–	83.5
2007	27.9	–	83.1
2006	22.5	–	82.5
2005	23.5	–	82.6
2004	–	–	82.6
2003	21.8	–	82.2
2002	–	–	81.7
2001	–	–	81.4
2000	–	48.7	81.1
1999	–	–	80.9
1998	–	36.4	80.5
1997	–	–	79.3
1996	12.9	–	77.3
1995	–	–	76.9
1994	–	–	76.4
1993	–	–	76
1992	–	–	75.5
1991	13.6	–	75.1
1990	–	–	74.6
1989	–	–	74.1
1988	–	34.1	73.6
1987	–	–	71.9
1986	–	–	71.3
1985	–	–	70.7
1984	–	–	70.2
1983	–	–	69.5
1982	–	–	68.9
1981	–	–	68.4
1980	–	–	67.8
1979	–	–	67.2
1978	–	–	66.5
1977	–	–	65.9
1976	–	–	65.6
1975	8.8	–	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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Burkina Faso vs Côte d’Ivoire

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Deaths in conflictsBurkina Faso: 2,595 deaths in 2022Côte d’Ivoire: 0 deaths in 2022