Male Literacy Rate

Asia Ranking

ages 15-24Source: IMF

Current Rank	Country	Value	Latest Reading	Previous Rank	Previous Value

1	Uzbekistan	100	2019	1	100
1 ↑	North Korea	100	2008	28
3 ↓	Azerbaijan	99.96	2019	2	99.96
4 ↓	Kazakhstan	99.94	2018	3	99.94
5 ↑	South Korea	99.91	2008	28
5 ↓	Singapore	99.91	2019	4	99.92
7 ↓	Tajikistan	99.86	2014	5	99.84
8 ↓	Indonesia	99.78	2020	7	99.72
8 ↑	China	99.78	2018	9	99.69
10 ↓	Turkmenistan	99.77	2014	6	99.81
11	Macao	99.73	2016	11	99.65
12 ↓	Kyrgyzstan	99.69	2018	8	99.7
13 ↓	Russia	99.65	2018	10	99.66
14 ↓	Brunei	99.64	2018	12	99.2
15 ↑	Mongolia	98.93	2020	16	98.19
16 ↓	Sri Lanka	98.72	2019	15	98.51
17 ↑	Vietnam	98.71	2019	18	97.4
18 ↓	Maldives	98.39	2016	13	99.08
19 ↓	Philippines	97.9	2019	14	98.9
20 ↓	Thailand	97.69	2018	17	98
21 ↓	Malaysia	96.6	2019	19	96.7
22 ↑	Burma (Myanmar)	95.27	2019	25	85.12
23 ↑	Laos	94.4	2015	27	77.27
24	Nepal	94.03	2018	24	89.88
25 ↓	Bhutan	93.27	2017	21	90.4
26 ↓	Bangladesh	93.16	2020	20	93.7
27 ↓	India	92.99	2018	22	90.04
28 ↓	Cambodia	91.86	2015	23	89.92
29 ↓	Pakistan	79.73	2019	26	79.78

Definition of Male Literacy Rate

Youth literacy rate is the percentage of people ages 15-24 who can both read and write with understanding a short simple statement about their everyday life.