Literacy - male (%) 2019 country comparisons, ranks, by Rank


Rank	Country	Value	Date of Info

1	Korea, North	100%	2015
1	Andorra	100%	2016
1	Uzbekistan	100%	2015
1	Greenland	100%	2015
2	Poland	99.9%	2015
2	Cuba	99.9%	2015
2	Latvia	99.9%	2015
2	Azerbaijan	99.9%	2016
3	Maldives	99.8%	2015
3	Lithuania	99.8%	2015
3	Belarus	99.8%	2015
3	Kazakhstan	99.8%	2015
3	Tajikistan	99.8%	2015
3	Ukraine	99.8%	2015
3	Georgia	99.8%	2015
3	Estonia	99.8%	2015
3	Turkmenistan	99.8%	2015
4	Russia	99.7%	2015
4	Armenia	99.7%	2015
4	Croatia	99.7%	2015
4	Moldova	99.7%	2015
4	Taiwan	99.7%	2014
4	Slovenia	99.7%	2015
5	Kyrgyzstan	99.6%	2015
6	Serbia	99.5%	2016
6	Cyprus	99.5%	2015
6	Bosnia and Herzegovina	99.5%	2015
6	Montenegro	99.5%	2015
7	Italy	99.4%	2015
8	Tonga	99.3%	2015
9	Trinidad and Tobago	99.2%	2015
10	Samoa	99.1%	2015
10	Hungary	99.1%	2015
10	Romania	99.1%	2015
11	Czechia	99%	2011
12	Macedonia	98.8%	2015
12	Spain	98.8%	2016
13	Bulgaria	98.7%	2015
13	Israel	98.7%	2011
13	Cayman Islands	98.7%	2007
13	Singapore	98.7%	2016
14	West Bank	98.6%	2016
14	Gaza Strip	98.6%	2016
14	Turkey	98.6%	2015
15	Greece	98.5%	2015
16	Albania	98.4%	2015
16	Antigua and Barbuda	98.4%	2012
17	Marshall Islands	98.3%	2011
18	Macau	98.2%	2016
18	Mongolia	98.2%	2015
18	China	98.2%	2015
19	Uruguay	98.1%	2015
20	Argentina	98%	2015
21	Jordan	97.7%	2015
21	Costa Rica	97.7%	2015
22	Chile	97.6%	2015
23	Brunei	97.5%	2015
23	Aruba	97.5%	2015
24	Qatar	97.4%	2015
24	Equatorial Guinea	97.4%	2015
25	New Caledonia	97.3%	2015
26	Indonesia	97.2%	2016
26	Peru	97.2%	2016
27	Portugal	97.1%	2015
28	Saudi Arabia	97%	2015
28	Venezuela	97%	2016
29	Bahrain	96.9%	2015
30	Palau	96.8%	2015
31	Libya	96.7%	2015
32	Oman	96.6%	2015
33	Bolivia	96.5%	2015
34	Kuwait	96.4%	2016
35	Vietnam	96.3%	2015
36	Malaysia	96.2%	2015
37	Suriname	96.1%	2015
38	Lebanon	96%	2015
39	Paraguay	95.8%	2015
39	Philippines	95.8%	2015
40	Panama	95.7%	2015
41	Mexico	95.5%	2015
42	Ecuador	95.4%	2016
42	South Africa	95.4%	2015
43	Mauritius	94.9%	2015
44	Thailand	94.7%	2015
45	Colombia	94.1%	2015
46	Sri Lanka	93.6%	2015
47	United Arab Emirates	93.1%	2015
47	Malta	93.1%	2015
48	Puerto Rico	92.8%	2015
49	Brazil	92.2%	2015
50	Cabo Verde	91.7%	2015
50	Syria	91.7%	2015
51	Seychelles	91.4%	2012
52	Iran	91.2%	2015
52	Dominican Republic	91.2%	2015
53	El Salvador	90%	2015
54	Tunisia	89.6%	2015
55	Honduras	89%	2015
56	Solomon Islands	88.9%	2009
57	Zimbabwe	88.5%	2015
57	Congo, Democratic Republic Of The	88.5%	2016
58	Burundi	88.2%	2015
59	Botswana	88%	2015
60	Guatemala	87.4%	2015
60	Eswatini	87.4%	2015
61	Guyana	87.2%	2015
61	Algeria	87.2%	2015
62	Laos	87.1%	2015
63	Vanuatu	86.6%	2015
64	Congo, Republic Of The	86.4%	2015
65	Iraq	85.7%	2015
66	Uganda	85.3%	2015
66	Gabon	85.3%	2015
67	Yemen	85.1%	2015
68	Cambodia	84.5%	2015
69	Jamaica	84%	2015
70	Sudan	83.3%	2015
71	Tanzania	83.2%	2015
72	Nicaragua	82.4%	2015
72	Eritrea	82.4%	2015
73	Egypt	82.2%	2015
74	Ghana	82%	2015
74	Angola	82%	2015
75	Comoros	81.8%	2015
75	Sao Tome and Principe	81.8%	2015
76	India	81.3%	2015
77	Cameroon	81.2%	2015
78	Kenya	81.1%	2015
79	Burma	80%	2016
80	Namibia	79.2%	2015
81	Morocco	78.6%	2015
82	Togo	77.3%	2015
83	Nepal	76.4%	2015
84	Bangladesh	75.6%	2016
85	Mozambique	73.3%	2015
86	Rwanda	73.2%	2015
87	Bhutan	73.1%	2015
88	Guinea-Bissau	71.8%	2015
89	Timor-Leste	71.5%	2015
90	Zambia	70.9%	2015
91	Lesotho	70.1%	2015
92	Malawi	69.8%	2015
93	Senegal	69.7%	2015
94	Pakistan	69.5%	2015
95	Nigeria	69.2%	2015
96	Madagascar	66.7%	2015
97	Papua New Guinea	65.6%	2015
98	Haiti	64.3%	2015
99	Gambia, The	63.9%	2015
100	Mauritania	62.6%	2015
101	Liberia	62.4%	2015
102	Sierra Leone	58.7%	2015
103	Ethiopia	57.2%	2015
104	Afghanistan	52%	2015
105	Central African Republic	50.7%	2015
106	Benin	49.9%	2015
107	Mali	45.1%	2015
108	Burkina Faso	43%	2015
109	South Sudan	40%	2009
110	Guinea	38.1%	2015
111	Chad	31.3%	2016
112	Niger	27.3%	2015




Literacy - male (%) 2019 Country Ranks, by Rank SOURCE: CIA World Factbook 2019

Literacy - male (%) 2019 Country Ranks, by Rank