Egypt literacy rate for 2022 was 79.45%, a 2.63% decline from 2021.
Egypt literacy rate for 2021 was 82.08%, a 10.91% increase from 2017.
Egypt literacy rate for 2017 was 71.17%, a 1.27% decline from 2013.
Egypt literacy rate for 2013 was 72.44%, a 1.43% decline from 2012.
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: Egypt Literacy Rate | Historical Data | 1976 - 2022.