Malawi literacy rate for 2020 was 70.15%, a 6.57% decline from 2018.
Malawi literacy rate for 2018 was 76.72%, a 3.89% increase from 2017.
Malawi literacy rate for 2017 was 72.83%, a 8.7% increase from 1998.
Malawi literacy rate for 1998 was 64.13%, a 15.59% increase from 1987.
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: Malawi Literacy Rate | Historical Data | 1987 - 2020.