In 2022, the share of women aged 15 or older who could read and write in Latin America and the Caribbean amounted to 94.27 percent, around 0.68 percentage point lower than the literacy rate among adult men. This region's adult literacy rate averaged at 94.6 percent in 2022.
Average adult literacy rate in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2022, by gender
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