Around 40 percent of adults in Bangladesh are still illiterate, according to Bangladesh Bureau of Statistic’s Literacy Assessment Survey 2023 report.
The functional literacy rate (7+ above years) in the country is now 62.92 per cent whereas the general literacy rate in the country is 74.23 per cent.
The functional literacy rate among people aged between 11-45 years in the country is however, 73.69 per cent in 2023 which was 53.70 per cent in 20