Youth literacy rate in Ethiopia 2005-2017, by gender
able to read and write a simple statement in 2017. Among females, the literacy rate was 71.97 percent, while males that could read and write were slightly higher, at 73.52 percent. For both gender, there was a drastic improvement from the figures in 2005. It is also worth noting that the gender gap diminished along the period.
According to most recent available data, 72.75 percent of people in the age group of 15-24 years in Ethiopia were