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Youth illiterate population, 15-24 years, female (number) by country

Total number of females between age 15 and age 24 who cannot both read and write with understanding a short simple statement on their everyday life.

Countries reporting
86
Highest
11.40 million number
India
Lowest
2 number
Uzbekistan
Median
27,468 number
Years covered
50
1970–2019
Data points
2,250

What the numbers show

Youth illiterate population, 15-24 years, female (number) is currently reported for 86 countries. The highest value is 11.40 million number in India; the lowest is 2 number in Uzbekistan.

The median across all reporting countries is 27,468 number, and the mean is 476,634 number.

Over the past decade 15 countries rose and 69 fell. The largest increase was in Azerbaijan (up 521.0%), and the largest decrease in Türkiye (down 92.4%).

Youth illiterate population, 15-24 years, female: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 India 11.40 million number 2018 down 58.7% falling
2 Pakistan 6.51 million number 2017 down 9.8% rising
3 Nigeria 5.86 million number 2018 down 2.6% rising
4 Ethiopia 3.19 million number 2017 down 22.9% falling
5 Côte d'Ivoire 1.22 million number 2018 down 8.9% rising
6 Chad 1.14 million number 2016 up 77.8% rising
7 Egypt 1.08 million number 2017 down 25.7% falling
8 Mali 1.04 million number 2018 up 17.6% rising
9 Mozambique 1.01 million number 2017 up 3.6% rising
10 Burkina Faso 882,379 number 2018 down 6.5% rising
11 Tanzania, United Republic of 764,704 number 2015 down 9.7% rising
12 Bangladesh 591,766 number 2019 down 87.3% volatile
13 Senegal 552,612 number 2017 down 17.0% rising
14 Benin 541,747 number 2018 down 2.0% rising
15 Madagascar 523,144 number 2018 down 27.8% falling
16 Malawi 463,238 number 2015 up 1.6% rising
17 Uganda 451,252 number 2018 down 17.9% falling
18 Cameroon 437,328 number 2018 down 0.2% rising
19 Central African Republic 359,523 number 2018 up 10.6% rising
20 Nepal 300,175 number 2018 down 46.1% falling
21 Iraq 290,538 number 2017 down 55.2% falling
22 China 175,985 number 2018 down 60.6% volatile
23 South Africa 153,207 number 2017 up 54.3% volatile
24 Burundi 152,929 number 2017 down 61.9% falling
25 Zambia 151,649 number 2018 down 71.7% falling
26 Togo 151,538 number 2015 down 19.7% falling
27 Rwanda 139,717 number 2018 down 41.1% falling
28 Iran, Islamic Republic of 124,089 number 2016 down 63.0% volatile
29 Cambodia 116,047 number 2015 down 64.5% falling
30 Guatemala 112,867 number 2014 down 59.2% falling
31 Viet Nam 112,520 number 2018 down 59.4% falling
32 Brazil 94,998 number 2018 down 62.6% volatile
33 Algeria 81,738 number 2018 down 73.5% volatile
34 Malaysia 81,421 number 2018 up 90.6% volatile
35 Morocco 75,010 number 2018 down 92.0% volatile
36 Philippines 71,217 number 2015 down 74.2% falling
37 Indonesia 67,138 number 2018 down 48.7% volatile
38 Mexico 67,039 number 2018 down 60.9% volatile
39 Lao People's Democratic Republic 66,482 number 2015 down 49.3% falling
40 Thailand 65,111 number 2018 down 60.4% falling
41 Colombia 39,819 number 2018 down 37.5% falling
42 Tunisia 36,417 number 2014 down 54.3% volatile
43 Peru 27,936 number 2018 down 68.5% volatile
44 Türkiye 27,000 number 2017 down 92.4% volatile
45 Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of 22,959 number 2016 down 23.2% volatile
46 Honduras 18,023 number 2018 down 54.4% falling
47 Saudi Arabia 16,746 number 2017 down 84.8% volatile
48 Sri Lanka 14,986 number 2018 down 35.9% volatile
49 Chile 13,495 number 2017 up 20.1% volatile
50 El Salvador 11,413 number 2018 down 46.3% volatile
51 Dominican Republic 10,753 number 2016 down 60.8% volatile
52 Namibia 9,361 number 2018 down 55.0% falling
53 Ecuador 8,986 number 2017 down 53.4% volatile
54 Argentina 8,377 number 2018 down 18.5% volatile
55 Paraguay 7,449 number 2018 down 32.5% volatile
56 Bolivia, Plurinational State of 6,107 number 2015 down 21.1% volatile
57 Spain 5,593 number 2018 down 42.9% volatile
58 Jordan 4,833 number 2018 down 24.9% volatile
59 Greece 4,807 number 2018 up 133.3% falling
60 Eswatini 3,886 number 2018 down 42.0% falling
61 Panama 3,838 number 2018 down 53.6% falling
62 Qatar 3,536 number 2017 up 451.6% rising
63 Palestine, State of 3,054 number 2018 down 21.3% falling
64 Oman 2,601 number 2018 down 60.0% falling
65 Uruguay 2,083 number 2018 up 23.0% falling
66 Kazakhstan 1,671 number 2018 down 20.9% volatile
67 Portugal 1,598 number 2018 down 45.6% volatile
68 Kuwait 959 number 2018 down 63.1% volatile
69 Vanuatu 891 number 2018 down 46.4% falling
70 Albania 814 number 2018 down 65.7% falling
71 Suriname 766 number 2018 up 213.9% volatile
72 Azerbaijan 621 number 2017 up 521.0% rising
73 Bahrain 573 number 2018 down 85.3% volatile
74 Republic of Moldova 553 number 2014 down 69.7% flat
75 Sao Tome and Principe 430 number 2018 down 89.0% volatile
76 Montenegro 405 number 2018 unchanged falling
77 Maldives 298 number 2016 up 16.9% volatile
78 Singapore 190 number 2018 down 76.3% volatile
79 Malta 103 number 2018 down 59.1% volatile
80 Brunei Darussalam 70 number 2018 down 56.0% volatile
81 Macau, China 49 number 2016 down 67.5% volatile
82 Grenada 47 number 2014 down 11.3% falling
83 Tonga 45 number 2018 up 7.1% rising
84 Seychelles 25 number 2018 down 41.9% falling
85 Barbados 19 number 2014 down 5.0% falling
86 Uzbekistan 2 number 2018 — volatile

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Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

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Indicator
Youth illiterate population, 15-24 years, female (number)
Unit
number
Source
UNESCO Institute for Statistics (http://uis.unesco.org/)
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
125 places, 2,250 data points, 1970–2019
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Total number of females between age 15 and age 24 who cannot both read and write with understanding a short simple statement on their everyday life.