Literacy rate, adult male (% of males ages 15 and above) (World Bank WDI)
World Bank indicators. % of males ages 15 and above, annual.
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Data source: World Bank, wdi_lka.zip (8 Oct 2026)
Macro Lab · LK.SOC.WDI.SE_ADT_LITR_MA_ZS.A · CC BY 4.0
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- Source World Bank, compiled by Macro Lab
- Unit % of males ages 15 and above
- Date range 1981 – 2024
- Last checked 8 Oct 2026
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- Literacy rate, adult male (% of males ages 15 and above) (World Bank WDI)
- Read from
- World Bank: World Development Indicators and International Debt Statistics (World Bank)
- Source page
- https://data.worldbank.org/country/sri-lanka
- Licence
- Source: The World Bank. Licence: CC BY 4.0.
- Notes
- World Bank, World Development Indicators, SE.ADT.LITR.MA.ZS, Sri Lanka. Data source (as the World Bank gives it): Data API, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), uri: https://databrowser.uis.unesco.org/resources, note: The data are obtained through the UIS API. Detailed documentation is available at: https://api.uis.unesco.org/api/public/documentation/, publisher: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), type: Excel (bulk file), date accessed: 2026-03-19, date published: 2026-02 Licence: CC BY 4.0. Source: The World Bank, World Development Indicators, https://data.worldbank.org/country/sri-lanka.
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