Chile vs Dominican Republic: Adult literacy

Adult literacy: 96.4% in Chile in 2017 and 94% in Dominican Republic in 2024, by UNESCO estimates. In 2017 the value was higher in Chile, by 3.2 percentage points, or 1.03 times that in Dominican Republic.

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% of adults · UNESCO

ChileDominican RepublicWorld

What the numbers say

Chile has been higher in every year both have figures for since 2002.
The world as a whole: 86.5% in 2017.

Every year

% of adults · UNESCO

Year	Chile	Dominican Republic	World
2024	–	94	87.7
2023	–	94.3	87.6
2022	–	93.7	87.4
2021	–	93.7	87.2
2020	–	93.7	87
2019	–	93.7	86.8
2018	–	93.4	86.8
2017	96.4	93.2	86.5
2016	–	93.8	86.3
2015	96.9	92	86
2014	–	91.8	85.6
2013	96.3	90.9	85.2
2012	–	90.2	84.9
2011	96.7	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	95.7	87	81.7
2001	–	–	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	94.3	–	75.5
1991	–	–	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	91.1	–	68.9
1981	–	73.1	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

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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