Cambodia Literacy Rate

Cambodia literacy rate for 2021 was 71.93%, a 10.62% decline from 2020.
  • Cambodia literacy rate for 2020 was 82.55%, a 5.11% decline from 2019.
  • Cambodia literacy rate for 2019 was 87.66%, a 7.13% increase from 2015.
  • Cambodia literacy rate for 2015 was 80.53%, a 2.47% increase from 2014.
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: Cambodia Literacy Rate | Historical Data | 1998 - 2021.