Dominican Republic vs Haiti: Adult literacy

Adult literacy: 94% in Dominican Republic in 2024 and 68% in Haiti in 2017, by UNESCO estimates. In 2017 the value was higher in Dominican Republic, by 25.2 percentage points, or 1.37 times that in Haiti.

Watch it change on the map

% of adults · UNESCO

Dominican RepublicHaitiWorld

What the numbers say

Dominican Republic has been higher in every year both have figures for since 2012.
The world as a whole: 86.5% in 2017.

Every year

% of adults · UNESCO

Year	Dominican Republic	Haiti	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	93.2	68	86.5
2016	93.8	–	86.3
2015	92	–	86
2014	91.8	–	85.6
2013	90.9	–	85.2
2012	90.2	74	84.9
2011	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	–	58.7	82.2
2002	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	–	–	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	–	34.7	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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Dominican Republic vs Haiti

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Deaths in conflictsDominican Republic: 0 deaths in 2022Haiti: 235 deaths in 2022