Literacy in Mauritania

Demographics Age (% in 2021)

Adult	66.96	WB
Youth	0.96	WB

Gender (% in 2021)

Male	71.78	WB
Female	62.17	WB

Africa (%)

Algeria	81.41 in 2018	WB
Angola	72.4 in 2022	WB
Benin	47.1 in 2022	WB
Botswana	86.82 in 2013	WB
Burkina Faso	34.49 in 2022	WB
Burundi	75.54 in 2022	WB
Cabo Verde	91 in 2022	WB
Cameroon	78.23 in 2020	WB
Central African Republic	37.49 in 2020	WB
Chad	27.28 in 2022	WB
Comoros	61.71 in 2022	WB
Congo	80.61 in 2021	WB
Côte d'Ivoire	89.89 in 2019	WB
Democratic Republic of the Congo	80.54 in 2022	WB
Djibouti Female Youth		1 timeseries
Egypt	74.5 in 2022	WB
Equatorial Guinea	94.37 in 2010	WB
Eritrea	76.57 in 2018	WB
Eswatini	89.28 in 2020	WB
Ethiopia	51.77 in 2017	WB
Gabon	85.69 in 2022	WB
Gambia	58.67 in 2022	WB
Ghana	80.38 in 2020	WB
Guinea	45.33 in 2021	WB
Guinea Bissau	53.9 in 2022	WB
Kenya	82.88 in 2022	WB
Lesotho	82.01 in 2022	WB
Liberia	48.3 in 2017	WB
Libya	76.5 in 1994	WB
Madagascar	77.48 in 2022	WB
Malawi	68.08 in 2022	WB
Mali	30.76 in 2020	WB
Mauritania	66.96 in 2021	WB
Mauritius	92.15 in 2021	WB
Morocco	77.35 in 2022	WB
Mozambique	59.78 in 2020	WB
Namibia	92.25 in 2021	WB
Niger	38.1 in 2022	WB
Nigeria	62.02 in 2018	WB
Rwanda	75.9 in 2021	WB
Sao Tome and Principe	93.75 in 2022	WB
Senegal	57.67 in 2022	WB
Seychelles	96.2 in 2020	WB
Sierra Leone	48.64 in 2022	WB
Somalia	41.03 in 2022	WB
South Africa	90 in 2021	WB
South Sudan	34.52 in 2018	WB
Sudan	60.7 in 2018	WB
Togo	66.54 in 2019	WB
Tunisia	83.56 in 2022	WB
Uganda	80.59 in 2022	WB
United Republic of Tanzania	82.02 in 2022	WB
Zambia	87.5 in 2020	WB
Zimbabwe	89.85 in 2022	WB

Education Indicators

Completion Rate	72.43 % in 2019	WB
Duration	6 years in 2022	WB
Educational Attainment	13.55 % in 2015	WB
Enrollment Rate	86.69 % in 2020	WB
Intake Rate Primary Education		6 timeseries
Literacy	66.96 % in 2021	WB
Not in Education	30.56 % in 2019	WB
Pupil–Teacher Ratio	34.28 ratio in 2018	WB
School Life Expectancy	9.35 years in 2019	WB
Starting Age	12 years in 2022	WB