Education · Western Africa

Guinea Adult Literacy Rate

39.6%as of 2018Reported+23.8% vs 2014

Share of people ages 15 and over who can read and write. Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Retrieved 10 May 2026.

Trend

2003 – 2018 · UNESCO

History

most recent 4 periods · UNESCO
PeriodAdult Literacy Rate
201839.6%
201432%
201025.3%
200329.7%

Adult Literacy Rate across Africa

All 54 countries →
CountryAdult Literacy RatePeriod
Nigeria70.4%2024
Kenya82.2%2000
South Africa91.2%2024
Egypt79.5%2022
Ghana76.5%2021
Ethiopia60.5%2022

Adult Literacy Rate in every African country

14 countries carry a recent adult literacy rate figure. Each opens its own page with the history, the source and the API request.

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