According to the World Bank, the overall literacy rate in Afghanistan is 43.0%, with a male literacy rate of 55.4% and a female literacy rate of 29.8%. This data comes from the 2018 Global Monitoring Report on Education for All; since then, there may have been changes to the literacy rates in Afghanistan.
Literacy rates in most countries are based on the latest round of Population and Housing Censuses. However, since censuses are conducted every 5 or 10 years, the availability of literacy data is generally limited to ten-year intervals and refers to a period in the past.