Italy vs United Arab Emirates: Adult literacy

Adult literacy: 99.4% in Italy in 2019 and 98.8% in United Arab Emirates in 2024, by UNESCO estimates. In 2019 the value was higher in Italy, by 1.6 percentage points, or 1.02 times that in United Arab Emirates.

Watch it change on the map

% of adults · UNESCO

ItalyUnited Arab EmiratesWorld

What the numbers say

Italy has been higher in every year both have figures for since 2019.
The world as a whole: 86.8% in 2019.

Every year

% of adults · UNESCO

Year	Italy	United Arab Emirates	World
2024	–	98.8	87.7
2023	–	98.1	87.6
2022	–	98.3	87.4
2021	–	98.1	87.2
2020	–	–	87
2019	99.4	97.8	86.8
2018	–	–	86.8
2017	–	–	86.5
2016	–	–	86.3
2015	–	–	86
2014	–	–	85.6
2013	–	–	85.2
2012	–	–	84.9
2011	98.9	–	84.7
2010	–	–	84.4
2009	–	–	83.8
2008	–	–	83.5
2007	–	–	83.1
2006	–	–	82.5
2005	–	90	82.6
2004	–	–	82.6
2003	–	–	82.2
2002	–	–	81.7
2001	98.4	–	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	–	71.2	70.7
1984	–	–	70.2
1983	–	–	69.5
1982	–	–	68.9
1981	96.5	–	68.4
1980	–	–	67.8
1979	–	–	67.2
1978	–	–	66.5
1977	–	–	65.9
1976	–	–	65.6
1975	–	53.5	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 conflictsItaly: 0 deaths in 2022United Arab Emirates: 3 deaths in 2022