Congo - Kinshasa vs Iran: Adult literacy

Adult literacy in 2023: 68.5% in Congo - Kinshasa and 88.9% in Iran, by UNESCO estimates. In 2023 the value was higher in Iran, by 20.4 percentage points, or 1.3 times that in Congo - Kinshasa.

Watch it change on the map

% of adults · UNESCO

Congo - KinshasaIranWorld

What the numbers say

Iran has been higher in every year both have figures for since 2012.
The world as a whole: 87.6% in 2023.

Every year

% of adults · UNESCO

Year	Congo - Kinshasa	Iran	World
2024	–	–	87.7
2023	68.5	88.9	87.6
2022	–	88.6	87.4
2021	–	88.5	87.2
2020	65.7	87.9	87
2019	–	87.4	86.8
2018	73.6	86.9	86.8
2017	–	86	86.5
2016	77	85.5	86.3
2015	–	85.3	86
2014	–	84.7	85.6
2013	–	84.6	85.2
2012	75	83.6	84.9
2011	–	83.5	84.7
2010	–	83.7	84.4
2009	–	83.2	83.8
2008	–	83	83.5
2007	–	–	83.1
2006	–	82.3	82.5
2005	–	82.4	82.6
2004	–	–	82.6
2003	–	–	82.2
2002	–	77	81.7
2001	67.2	–	81.4
2000	–	–	81.1
1999	–	–	80.9
1998	–	–	80.5
1997	–	–	79.3
1996	–	73.1	77.3
1995	–	–	76.9
1994	–	–	76.4
1993	–	–	76
1992	–	–	75.5
1991	–	65.5	75.1
1990	–	–	74.6
1989	–	–	74.1
1988	–	–	73.6
1987	–	–	71.9
1986	–	52.3	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	–	36.5	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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Deaths in conflictsCongo - Kinshasa: 5,228 deaths in 2022Iran: 360 deaths in 2022