Top 20 Most Literate and Least Literate Countries [Ranked] 2023

What’s the most literate nation in the World? And which countries are the least literate?.

Ranked by their literacy levels according to the year they were gaged, these are the most literate and the least literate countries in the world.

When a country has a high number of literate people, that’s an advantage to the country compared to the country where most of the population is illiterate.

With that being said, below is the ranking of the most illiterate people by country to the most literate countries on the planet.

Top 10 Most Literate Countries In The World:

1. Uzbekistan 🇺🇿  – 2018 – 99.99%
2. Ukraine 🇺🇦  – 2012 – 99.97%
3. San Marino  – 2018 – 99.92%
4. Latvia 🇱🇻  – 2018 – 99.89%
5. Estonia 🇪🇪  – 2011 – 99.89%
6. Czech Republic – 2016 – 99.83%
7. Lithuania 🇱🇹  – 2011 – 99.82%
8. Tajikistan 🇹🇯 – 2014 – 99.80%
9. Azerbaijan 🇦🇿  – 2017 – 99.79%
10. Kazakhstan 🇰🇿  – 2018 – 99.78%

Top 10 Least Literate Countries In The World:

1. Chad 🇹🇩 – 2016 – 22.31%
2. Guinea 🇬🇳  – 2014 – 32.00%
3. South Sudan 🇸🇩  – 2018 – 34.52%
4. Niger 🇳🇪  – 2018 – 35.05%
5. Mali 🇲🇱  – 2018 – 35.47%
6. Central African Republic – 37.40%
7. Burkina Faso  – 2018 – 41.22%
8. Benin 🇧🇯  – 2018 – 42.36%
9. Afghanistan 🇦🇫  – 2018 – 43.02%
10. Sierra Leone  – 2018 – 43.21%