Latin America & the Caribbean: adult literacy rate 2023, by gender

Published by Statista Research Department, Feb 25, 2025

In 2023, the share of women aged 15 or older who could read and write in Latin America and the Caribbean amounted to 94.79 percent, around 0.33 percentage point lower than the literacy rate among adult men. This region's adult literacy rate averaged at 94.8 percent in 2023.

Average adult literacy rate in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2023, by gender

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Release date

January 2025

Region

LAC

Survey time period

2023

Age group

15 years and older

Supplementary notes

Data for male and female literacy rate can be found here and here.

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