Iraq literacy rate for 2021 was 84.06%, a 1.54% decline from 2017.
Iraq literacy rate for 2017 was 85.60%, a 2.3% increase from 2016.
Iraq literacy rate for 2016 was 83.30%, a 1.1% increase from 2014.
Iraq literacy rate for 2014 was 82.20%, a 5% increase 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: Iraq Literacy Rate | Historical Data | 2000 - 2021.