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Zambia Youth Literacy Rate 2020s

Literacy rate among youth ages 15-24 · World Bank
85.17% decade average (2020-2029)

Zambia's youth literacy rate during the 2020s ranged from 84.15% (2021) to 85.86% (2020), averaging 85.17% over 5 years of data.

2020s Data
YearValueChangeRank
2020 85.86% +1.82pp 38th
2021 84.15% −1.71pp 39th
2022 84.48% +0.34pp 50th
2023 85.71% +1.23pp 31st
2025 85.64% −0.08pp 58th