Pakistan Literacy Rate

Pakistan literacy rate for 2021 was 58.86%, a 0.86% increase from 2019.
  • Pakistan literacy rate for 2019 was 58.00%, a 0.99% increase from 2018.
  • Pakistan literacy rate for 2018 was 57.01%, a 2.12% decline from 2017.
  • Pakistan literacy rate for 2017 was 59.13%, a 2.15% 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: Pakistan Literacy Rate | Historical Data | 1981 - 2021.