definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99%
male: 99%
female: 99% (2003 est.)
Source: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/sw.html
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Percent sign (%) is read as percent.
Literacy rate.
Only 29 percent of all Americans say they read newspapers and just 23 percent read a print newspaper. Over the past decade the percentage reading a print newspaper has fallen by 18 points from 41 to 23 percent
2.77 % can be read as two point seven seven percent
The country that has the highest rate of people that cannot read/write is:Burkina Faso, with only a 21.8% literacy rate, or 79.2% illiteracy rate. 2003 est.