Myanmar (Burma) vs United Arab Emirates: Adult literacy

Adult literacy: 93.5% in Myanmar (Burma) in 2020 and 98.8% in United Arab Emirates in 2024, by UNESCO estimates. In 2019 the value was higher in United Arab Emirates, by 8.7 percentage points, or 1.1 times that in Myanmar (Burma).

Watch it change on the map

% of adults · UNESCO

Myanmar (Burma)United Arab EmiratesWorld

What the numbers say

United Arab Emirates 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	Myanmar (Burma)	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	93.5	–	87
2019	89.1	97.8	86.8
2018	95.8	–	86.8
2017	–	–	86.5
2016	84.8	–	86.3
2015	–	–	86
2014	90.4	–	85.6
2013	–	–	85.2
2012	–	–	84.9
2011	–	–	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	–	–	81.4
2000	89.9	–	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	78.6	–	69.5
1982	–	–	68.9
1981	–	–	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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Myanmar (Burma) vs United Arab Emirates

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Deaths in conflictsMyanmar (Burma): 2,720 deaths in 2022United Arab Emirates: 3 deaths in 2022