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Literacy rate, adult male (% of males ages 15 and above)

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Timeline:

This timeline shows a graph from 1981 to 2016 of South Africa. No data until 1980. Number of actual observations by date: 9.

Source name:

World Development Indicators

Source organization:

United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Institute for Statistics.

Categories, topics:

Education, Gender

Last updated:

apr 23, 2017

Indicators value changes by year

Meaning:

91.212

Minimum:

77.526

jan 1, 1981

Maximum:

95.833

jan 1, 2016

At the date of observation

Value

Absolute change

Change from the previous value

jan 1, 1981

77.526

+77.526

0.0%

jan 1, 1997

84.071

+6.546

8.44%

jan 1, 2008

90.718

+6.646

7.91%

jan 1, 2010

94.121

+3.404

3.75%

jan 1, 2011

94.144

+0.022

0.02%

jan 1, 2012

94.245

+0.101

0.11%

jan 1, 2013

94.964

+0.719

0.76%

jan 1, 2015

95.287

+0.323

0.34%

jan 1, 2016

95.833

+0.546

0.57%

Ranking of countries by current statistics by years

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