Ethiopia vs Côte d’Ivoire: Adult literacy

Adult literacy: 60.5% in Ethiopia in 2022 and 50% in Côte d’Ivoire in 2021, by UNESCO estimates. In 2021 the value was higher in Ethiopia, by 4.9 percentage points, or 1.1 times that in Côte d’Ivoire.

Watch it change on the map

% of adults · UNESCO

EthiopiaCôte d’IvoireWorld

What the numbers say

Ethiopia has been higher since 2021, when it overtook Côte d’Ivoire.
The world as a whole: 87.2% in 2021.

Every year

% of adults · UNESCO

Year	Ethiopia	Côte d’Ivoire	World
2024	–	–	87.7
2023	–	–	87.6
2022	60.5	–	87.4
2021	54.9	50	87.2
2020	–	–	87
2019	55.1	57	86.8
2018	–	–	86.8
2017	–	–	86.5
2016	47.5	50	86.3
2015	–	–	86
2014	–	43.9	85.6
2013	48.4	–	85.2
2012	–	–	84.9
2011	–	–	84.7
2010	–	–	84.4
2009	–	–	83.8
2008	–	–	83.5
2007	39	–	83.1
2006	–	–	82.5
2005	–	–	82.6
2004	35.9	–	82.6
2003	–	–	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	–	–	77.3
1995	–	–	76.9
1994	27	–	76.4
1993	–	–	76
1992	–	–	75.5
1991	–	–	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	–	–	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.

How the layers work, where their data comes from and what they can’t tell you: Countries through time

Ethiopia vs Côte d’Ivoire

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Deaths in conflictsEthiopia: 102,900 deaths in 2022Côte d’Ivoire: 0 deaths in 2022