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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 8 February 2025. This article needs to be updated. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (March 2022) World map of countries shaded according to the literacy rate for all people aged 15 and over This is a list of countries by literacy rate. The global ...
Trinidad and Tobago is considered one of the most literate countries in the World with a literacy rate exceeding 98%. [2] This exceptionally high literacy rate can be attributed, in part, to free tuition from Kindergarten to University. The education system generally starts at Pre-School at the early age of two and a half years.
Youth literacy rate is the percentage of literates in the age group 15–24. UNESCO updates this data every year. The table below contains the data published for the year 2015 by UNESCO . [1] * indicates "Literacy in COUNTRY or TERRITORY" or "Education in COUNTRY or TERRITORY" links.
The literacy rate in Barbados for youth and adults are both above 99%, only falling to 98.5 among the elderly. The literacy gender parity rate is 1.0. This information is for 2014. Starting in 2000, the government initiated the Education Sector Enhancement Programme, usually referred to as EduTech 2000.
Country HDI 2022 data (2023-2024 report) rankings; Very high human development: 1 Canada: 0.935 2 United States: 0.927 3 Saint Kitts and Nevis: 0.838 4 Antigua and Barbuda: 0.826 5 Bahamas: 0.820 6 Panama: 0.816 7 Trinidad and Tobago: 0.814 8 Barbados: 0.813 9 Costa Rica: 0.811 High human development: 10 Grenada: 0.799
Cuba is the largest country by land area in the Caribbean, and its main island is the seventeenth-largest island in the world by land area . Total area ranked 106 out of 249 countries and outlying territories. Renewable water resources ranked 106 out of 174 countries.
In 1900 Cuba had a literacy rate of 36.1% [6] [7] - which was quite high for Latin America at the time. [8] By the early 1900s Cuba had a strong education system, but only half of the country's children participated. Schools remained inaccessible to the poorest Cubans and this resulted in a low literacy-rate for rural areas compared to the cities.
The adult literacy rate is 94.4%. [1] The Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI) [2] finds that Suriname is fulfilling only 61.6% of what it should be fulfilling for the right to education based on the country's level of income. [3] HRMI breaks down the right to education by looking at the rights to both primary education and secondary ...