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India Youth Literacy Rate 2020s

Literacy rate among youth ages 15-24 · World Bank
96.66% decade average (2020-2029)

India's youth literacy rate during the 2020s ranged from 95.68% (2020) to 98.15% (2025), averaging 96.66% over 5 years of data.

2020s Data
YearValueChangeRank
2020 95.68% +0.91pp 31st
2021 95.89% +0.21pp 30th
2022 96.54% +0.65pp 33rd
2023 97.04% +0.50pp 24th
2025 98.15% +1.11pp 36th