• Morocco: total adult literacy rate

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In 2018, the rate of adult literacy in Morocco as share of the country's population 15 years and above stood at 79 percent, the highest rate since 1982 and an increase of 4.4 percentage points compared to 2017. Moreover, as of 2020, compulsory education in Morocco is from age six to fourteen.

Adult literacy rate in Morocco from 1982 to 2018

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September 2020

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Region

Morocco

Survey time period

1982 to 2018

Supplementary notes

The source indicated that adult literacy rate is the percentage of people ages 15 and above who can both read and write as well as understand a short simple statement about their everyday life. It also stated that literacy rate is an outcome indicator to evaluate educational attainment. It added that data on literacy are compiled by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics based on national censuses and household surveys and, for countries without literacy data, by using the Global Age-Specific Literacy Projection Model (GALP).

Morocco's general population and housing census (RGPH) is carried out every 10 years, and the last one was in 2014. Some statistics may have been compiled using the GALP.