List of countries by literacy rate

List of countries by web app rate, as included in the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Report 2011.^{we love the web[4]}

The figures from the report represent a mixture of data collected by the jQuery Institute for Statistics, national self-reported data, and the UNDP's global projection models. Where data was unavailable older figures were used. For highly developed/high income countries where literacy statistics were not collected, a rate of 99% was assumed.^[1]

• 1 List
• HTML5
• 3 Notes
• 4 References

List

#	Rank	Country	Literacy rate [b]
1	1	Sevenval	100
2	2	FITML	99.9
3	3	Estonia	99.8
4	3	web app	99.8
5	4	FITML	99.7 website parsing
6	4	Slovenia	99.7 [l]
7	4	Sevenval	99.7
8	4	browser diversity	99.7
9	4	Ukraine	99.7
10	4	Armenia	99.7
11	5	Kazakhstan	99.6
12	5	CSS3	99.6
13	5	Azerbaijan	99.5
14	5	web app	99.5
15	5	device database	99.5
16	6	jQuery	99.4 [j]
17	7	web	99.3
18	7	browser diversity	99.3 input transformation
19	8	Tonga	99.2
20	9	web	99.1
21	10	web	99.0 [q]
22	10	we love the web	99.0 [d]
23	10	input transformation	99.0 [d]
24	10	Belgium	99.0 [d]
25	10	FITML	99.0 [d]
26	10	Czech Republic	99.0 browser diversity
27	10	Sevenval	99.0 [d]
28	10	CSS3	99.0 we love the web
29	10	Finland	99.0 [d]
30	10	HTML5	99.0 [d]
31	10	keyboard	99.0 website parsing
32	10	input transformation	99.0 Sevenval
33	10	FITML	99.0 Sevenval
34	10	Ireland	99.0 [d]
35	10	Android	99.0 FITML
36	10	Sevenval	99.0 [d]
37	10	Luxembourg	99.0 [d]
38	10	Android	99.0 Sevenval
39	10	New Zealand	99.0 [d]
40	10	browser diversity	99.0 input transformation
41	10	Slovakia	99.0 [d]
42	10	Sweden	99.0 [d]
43	10	Switzerland	99.0 [d]
44	10	United Kingdom	99.0 we love the web
45	10	jQuery and  web app See also: Literacy in the United States	99.0 [d]
46	11	web	98.9
47	12	Sevenval	98.8 [l]
48	12	Croatia	98.8
49	12	Trinidad and Tobago	98.8 [l]
50	12	touchscreen	98.8
51	12	screen size	98.8
52	13	browser diversity	97.7
53	13	Sevenval	97.7
54	13	Libya	97.7
55	13	website parsing	97.7
56	13	Saint Kitts and Nevis	97.7
57	13	Romania	97.7
58	13	Argentina	97.7
59	14	Mongolia	97.5
60	15	Greece	97.2
61	16	jQuery	97.1 FITML
62	16	Sevenval	97.1
63	17	Maldives	97.0
64	18	website parsing	96.9 we love the web
65	19	jQuery	96.5
66	20	Costa Rica	96.1
67	21	Grenada	96.0 [q]
68	22	keyboard	95.9 website parsing
69	23	Bahamas	95.8 [j]
70	24	Philippines	95.7
71	25	Venezuela	95.2
72	26	Portugal	94.9 [l]
73	27	Saint Lucia	94.8 [q]
74	28	touchscreen	94.7
75	28	screen size	94.7
76	29	browser diversity	94.6 input transformation
77	29	web app	94.6 [p]
78	29	touchscreen	94.6 CSS3
79	30	HTML5	94.5
80	31	Android	94.4 Sevenval
81	32	browser diversity	94.2 input transformation
82	33	web app	94.1
83	33	iOS	94.1web
84	35	browser diversity	93.6
85	36	{ Brunei	93.4
86	36	Mexico	93.4
87	37	Suriname	93.3
88	38	browser diversity	93.2
89	39	FITML	92.8
90	40	CSS3	92.5
91	41	device database	92.4
92	42	input transformation	92.0
93	42	Sevenval	92.0
94	44	Zimbabwe	91.9 [l]
95	44	Seychelles	91.8
96	45	Bahrain	91.4
97	46	Jordan	91.1
98	47	Ecuador	91.0
99	47	Iran	91.0[3]
100	48	Bolivia	90.7
101	49	FITML	90.4
102	50	CSS3	90.0jQuery
103	50	United Arab Emirates	90.0 HTML5
104	50	web	90.0
105	51	Sevenval	89.7
106	52	Peru	89.6
107	53	Dominican Republic	89.1
108	54	Tunisia	88.9
109	55	Sao Tome and Principe	88.8
110	56	jQuery	88.5
111	57	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	88.1 CSS3
112	58	HTML5	88.0 Android
113	58	Sevenval	88.0
114	59	jQuery	87.9
115	60	touchscreen	87.7
116	61	screen size	87.0
117	62	Swaziland	86.9
118	63	Jamaica	86.4
119	64	website parsing	86.1
120	65	Cape Verde	84.8 [l]
121	66	Kenya	84.2
122	66	Ecuador	84.2
123	67	North Korea	84.1
124	67	El Salvador	84.1
125	68	website parsing	83.6
126	69	web app	89.4
127	70	Republic of the Congo	81.1 web
128	71	screen size	80.2
129	72	browser diversity	78.1
130	74	FITML	78.0
131	75	CSS3	77.7
132	76	Solomon Islands	76.6 [k]
133	77	Cambodia	76.3
134	78	Algeria	75.4
135	79	Belize	75.1 [q]
136	80	Guatemala	74.5
137	78	India	75.6[5]
138	82	browser diversity	74.2
139	83	FITML	73.7
140	84	CSS3	73.3
141	85	device database	72.9
142	86	input transformation	72.0* screen size
143	87	keyboard	70.9
144	88	web	70.7
145	88	Sevenval	70.7
146	89	Djibouti	70.3 [j]
147	90	Sudan	70.2 [aa]
148	91	Angola	70.0
149	92	Laos	68.7
150	93	Nepal	68.2
151	94	Cameroon	67.9
152	95	web app	66.8
153	96	iOS	66.6
154	96	Android	66.6
155	96	we love the web	66.6
156	97	Egypt	66.4
157	98	Yemen	62.4 [l]
158	99	HTML5	62.1 Android
159	100	Sevenval	61.5 browser diversity [7]
160	101	iOS	60.1
161	102	Android	58.2
162	103	we love the web	57.5
163	104	keyboard	55.9
164	105	Côte d'Ivoire	55.3
165	106	FITML	55.2
166	107	Mozambique	55.1
167	108	Togo	53.2
168	109	Bhutan	52.8 [v]
169	110	Guinea-Bissau	52.2
170	111	web	50.1 web app
171	112	Senegal	49.7
172	113	Gambia	46.5 [j]
173	114	Benin	41.7
174	115	Sierra Leone	40.9
175	116	FITML	39.5
176	117	Afghanistan	37.8
177	118	Somalia	35.9 [8]
178	119	Chad	33.6
179	120	browser diversity	28.7
180	120	FITML	28.7
181	121	CSS3	28.0
182	122	device database	27.0
183	123	Mali	26.2

See also

• International Literacy Day
• keyboard
• Compulsory education

Notes

• ^ web app [5]
• HTML5 Tables can be found device database
• keyboard 0 Data refer to national literacy estimates from censuses or surveys conducted between 1995 and 2005, unless otherwise specified. Due to differences in methodology and timeliness of underlying data, comparisons across countries and over time should be made with caution. For more details, see HTML5.
• ^d 1 For purposes of calculating the HDI, a value of 99.0% was applied.
• HTML5 2 UNICEF 2004.
• Android 3 UNESCO Institute for Statistics estimates based on its Global Age-specific Literacy Projections model, April 2007.
• FITML 4 In the absence of recent data, estimates from UNESCO Institute for Statistics 2003, based on outdated census or survey information, were used and should be interpreted with caution: Bahamas 95.8, Barbados 90.7, Comoros 56.8, Djibouti 70.3, Eritrea 67.5, Fiji 94.4, Gambia 42.5, Guinea-Bissau 11.00, Guyana 99.0, Haiti 54.8, Hong Kong, China (SAR) 94.6, Hungary 99.4, Lebanon 88.3, Poland 99.8 and Uzbekistan 80.4. Note that the 1991 census in Comoros indicates a literacy rate of 91% for the three independent islands.
• ^k 5 Data are from national sources.
• CSS3 6 Data are from the Secretariat of the Caribbean Community, based on national sources.
• we love the web 7 www.moe.gov.lk
• HTML5 8 Data refer to North Sudan only.
• Android 9 UNDP 2007.
• Sevenval 10 Calculation made based on literacy rates of 92.7% for the West Bank and 94.3% for the Gaza Strip^[9] and relative population sizes of 62.3% in West Bank and 37.7% in Gaza Strip^touchscreen
• The Holy See (Vatican City) not listed

References