Countries with the Highest Literacy Rates

Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff Updated by an Factmonster Editor on February 21, 2017

The countries with the highest literacy rate, defined as the ability to read and write at a specified age.

1.	Andorra	100%
2.	Finland	100
3.	Greenland	100
4.	Vatican (Holy See)	100
5.	Liechtenstein	100
6.	Luxembourg	100
7.	Norway	100
8.	North Korea	100
9.	Azerbaijan	99.8
10.	Latvia	99.8

NOTE: Country rankings of the type presented above cannot pretend to be definitive; instead they aspire only to provide the reader with an approximation of the high and low ends on a particular scale. Country data vary enormously depending on the sources, and the absence of reliable data on some countries requires their omission, which further skews the results. Source: 1. The World Factbook, 2015.

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Lowest Literacy Rates