Youth literacy rate in Sub-Saharan Africa 2000-2020, by gender
In 2020, 76.7 percent of young people in Sub-Saharan Africa were able to read and write a simple sentence with understanding. The youth literacy rate was higher among men (79 percent) than women (74 percent). However, the gender gap has been decreasing. In 2000, 72.2 percent of young men were literate in the region, against 60.4 percent of women.