Zambia literacy rate for 2024 was 71.77%, a 8.21% decline from 2022.
Zambia literacy rate for 2022 was 79.98%, a 0.03% increase from 2021.
Zambia literacy rate for 2021 was 79.95%, a 1.8% decline from 2020.
Zambia literacy rate for 2020 was 81.75%, a 10.62% increase from 2018.
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: Zambia Literacy Rate | Historical Data | 1990 - 2024.