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Elderly literacy rate, population 65+ years, adjusted gender parity index (estimate using the Global Age-Specific Literacy Projections Model) (GPIA)

Name: Elderly literacy rate, population 65+ years, adjusted gender parity index (estimate using the Global Age-Specific Literacy Projections Model) (GPIA) by country, 2024
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Elderly literacy rate, population 65+ years, adjusted gender parity index (estimate using the Global Age-Specific Literacy Projections Model) (GPIA) league table
#	Country	GPIA	Region	Income
1	Tonga	1	East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income
2	Hungary	1	Europe & Central Asia	High income
3	Puerto Rico (US)	1	Latin America & Caribbean	High income
4	Chile	1	Latin America & Caribbean	High income
5	Brazil	0.99	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
6	Moldova	0.99	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
7	Venezuela, RB	0.98	Latin America & Caribbean	Lower middle income
8	Maldives	0.98	South Asia	Upper middle income
9	Guyana	0.93	Latin America & Caribbean	High income
10	Thailand	0.9	East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income
11	Macao SAR, China	0.9	East Asia & Pacific	High income
12	Madagascar	0.89	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
13	Zimbabwe	0.87	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
14	Vanuatu	0.84	East Asia & Pacific	Lower middle income
15	Lao PDR	0.69	East Asia & Pacific	Lower middle income
16	Kenya	0.62	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
17	Tanzania	0.58	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
18	Iran, Islamic Rep.	0.57	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Upper middle income
19	Egypt, Arab Rep.	0.54	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Lower middle income
20	Malawi	0.48	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
21	Uganda	0.45	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
22	Congo, Dem. Rep.	0.43	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
23	Morocco	0.41	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Lower middle income
24	Sierra Leone	0.39	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
25	Burundi	0.38	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
26	Guinea	0.32	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
27	Angola	0.31	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
28	Gambia, The	0.29	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
29	Mozambique	0.28	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
30	Mali	0.28	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
31	Senegal	0.26	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
32	Chad	0.24	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
33	Guinea-Bissau	0.13	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income

Elderly literacy rate, population 65+ years, adjusted gender parity index (estimate using the Global Age-Specific Literacy Projections Model) (GPIA)