Adult literacy in Indonesia

Adult literacy in Indonesia: 67.3% in 1980 and 96% in 2020, by UNESCO estimates.

Latest, 2020: 96%
Since 1980: +28.7 percentage points
World, 2020: 87%

Watch it change on the map

% of adults · UNESCO

Estimates, UNESCOWorld

Every year

% of adults · UNESCO

Year	Indonesia	World
2024	–	87.7
2023	–	87.6
2022	–	87.4
2021	–	87.2
2020	96	87
2019	–	86.8
2018	95.7	86.8
2017	–	86.5
2016	95.4	86.3
2015	95.2	86
2014	95.1	85.6
2013	–	85.2
2012	–	84.9
2011	92.8	84.7
2010	92.3	84.4
2009	92.6	83.8
2008	92.2	83.5
2007	–	83.1
2006	92	82.5
2005	–	82.6
2004	90.4	82.6
2003	–	82.2
2002	–	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	81.5	74.6
1989	–	74.1
1988	–	73.6
1987	–	71.9
1986	–	71.3
1985	–	70.7
1984	–	70.2
1983	–	69.5
1982	–	68.9
1981	–	68.4
1980	67.3	67.8
1979	–	67.2
1978	–	66.5
1977	–	65.9
1976	–	65.6
1975	–	65.4

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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