Afghanistan literacy rate for 2021 was 37.27%, a 1.26% increase from 2020.
Afghanistan literacy rate for 2020 was 36.01%, a 2.26% increase from 2015.
Afghanistan literacy rate for 2015 was 33.75%, a 2.3% increase from 2011.
Afghanistan literacy rate for 2011 was 31.45%, a 13.29% increase from 1979.
Adult literacy rate is the percentage of people ages 15 and above who can both read and write with understanding a short simple statement about their everyday life. The full historical dataset is available for download here: Afghanistan Literacy Rate | Historical Data | 1979 - 2021.