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Singapore
Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above)

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.

Global rank#10out of 45 countries
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Historical trend

96.490.885.279.674.0198020012021Singapore · 2021: 96.42%Singapore

Analytical takeaways

  • Singapore records 96.42% for Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) in 2021, ranking #10 globally out of 45 countries.
  • Literacy rate, adult female (% of females ages 15 and above) increased from 73.97% in 1980 to 96.42% in 2021, a gain of 22.45%.
  • The country sits in the top quartile of the global distribution for this metric, making the page useful for leader-oriented high-intent searches.

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