Nigeria - Youth literacy rate

75.0 (%) in 2018

Nigeria youth literacy rate was at level of 75 % in 2018, up from 66.4 % in 2008.

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Youth (15-24) literacy rate (%). Total is the number of people age 15 to 24 years who can both read and write with understanding a short simple statement on their everyday life, divided by the population in that age group. Generally, ‘literacy’ also encompasses ‘numeracy’, the ability to make simple arithmetic calculations.