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  You asked: What is the lowest literacy rate in Africa?
  What country has the lowest literacy rate in Africa?
  What African nation has a literacy rate of 49%?
  What is the illiteracy rate in Africa?
  What is Ghana illiteracy rate?
  Which country has the highest illiteracy rate in Africa?
  What race is the most illiterate?
  What is Germany's literacy rate?
  Why is literacy rate so low in Africa?
  What is the literacy rate in the USA?
  Niger. Niger is the least literate country in Africa and one of the least literate in the world. In this nation, only 19% of individuals over the age of 15 are able to read and write with comprehension. This low rate is a reflection of the poor quality of education available here.
  In seven African countries, more than half of the population is illiterate; almost all of them are in West Africa (Figure). Niger (with an adult literacy rate of only 15%) and Guinea (where the rate is just 25%) have the lowest literacy rates.
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  In 2019, the illiteracy rate among adults aged 15 years and older was 34.7 percent in Sub-Saharan Africa.
  The illiteracy rate among all adults (over 15-year-old) in 2019, by world region.
  The illiteracy rate among all adults
  Arab States 20.6%
  The rate of adult literacy in Ghana as share of the country's population 15 years and above stood at 79 percent in 2018. The total adult literacy rate had increased from 57.9 percent to 71.5 percent in 2000 and 2010, respectively, and it represented a total increase of 13.6 percentage points.
  Equatorial Guinea has one of the highest literacy rates on the African continent.
  The 10 Most Literate Countries Of Africa.
  Over 75% of the world's 781 million illiterate adults are found in South Asia, West Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa, and women represent almost two-thirds of all illiterate adults globally.
  Adult literacy rate is the percentage of people ages 15 and above who can both read and write with understanding a short simple statement about their everyday life. Germany literacy rate for 2018 was 99.00%, a 0% increase from 2015.
  However, youth literacy rates in sub-Saharan Africa (70% in 2011) are the lowest of any region. … One of the largest barriers to increasing literacy is the lack of books, especially in rural areas.
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  In 2018, the literacy rate, which is defined as people aged 15 and above who can read and write, had reached about 96.8 percent in China.