Cameroon vs Central African Republic: Adult literacy

Adult literacy: 72.6% in Cameroon in 2018 and 42.4% in Central African Republic in 2019, by UNESCO estimates. In 2000 the value was higher in Cameroon, by 17.8 percentage points, or 1.35 times that in Central African Republic.

Watch it change on the map

% of adults · UNESCO

CameroonCentral African RepublicWorld

What the numbers say

Cameroon has been higher in every year both have figures for since 2000.
The world as a whole: 81.1% in 2000.

Every year

% of adults · UNESCO

Year	Cameroon	Central African Republic	World
2024	–	–	87.7
2023	–	–	87.6
2022	–	–	87.4
2021	–	–	87.2
2020	–	–	87
2019	–	42.4	86.8
2018	72.6	–	86.8
2017	–	–	86.5
2016	–	–	86.3
2015	–	–	86
2014	–	–	85.6
2013	–	–	85.2
2012	–	–	84.9
2011	–	–	84.7
2010	71.2	–	84.4
2009	–	–	83.8
2008	–	–	83.5
2007	70.7	–	83.1
2006	–	–	82.5
2005	–	–	82.6
2004	–	–	82.6
2003	–	–	82.2
2002	–	–	81.7
2001	–	–	81.4
2000	68.4	50.7	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	–	–	75.1
1990	–	–	74.6
1989	–	–	74.1
1988	–	33.6	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	41.2	–	65.6
1975	–	18.2	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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Cameroon vs Central African Republic

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Deaths in conflictsCameroon: 660 deaths in 2022Central African Republic: 754 deaths in 2022