How To Increase Literacy In Victoria 3

Literacy in Victoria 3 is a mechanic that determines how educated your population is. This helps with reforms and further upgrades.

The literacy rate is one of the many mechanics involved in building your nation in Victoria 3. Understanding how you can improve the literacy rate to become a stronger nation is crucial by producing advanced technological items. Your progress can increase many-fold as a nation if you obtain a perfect literacy rate.

It is important to develop your Literacy Rate to ensure your country performs well socially and economically. This guide will provide information on different professions to show the relationship between the type of jobs and the literacy rate.

What is Literacy Rate in Victoria 3?

The literacy rate is crucial as it determines the number of people who can read or write in your country. In Victoria 3, you need to develop reforms to promote education and help the country advance globally.

Many jobs and professions require a high literacy rate. A low literacy rate also impacts your technological advancement worldwide by reducing your pace of innovation.

If most of your nation’s labor force indulges in peasantry and labor work, your literacy rate would be low, as these jobs require no literacy. However, if you see the people working in Government Buildings, such as Aristocrats, Clergymen, and Clerks, they need a higher literacy level.

How to increase your country’s literacy rate?

The primary aspect that affects the literacy rate is your education level. If you improve your education investment and develop institutions such as universities, your nation’s literacy rate will improve.

To improve education access, the levels in educational institutions must increase. As the levels increase, the literacy rate will rise over time.

You can access educational institutions by going to the Politics icon. There, you will find a tab titled ‘Institutions.’ Click on the tab to get stats on your nation’s education level.

You must start putting points in your educational institutions. Initially, you have to pass the Education System Law. You can select any school’s options, Religious, Private, or Public, to activate the law and boost your literacy rate. Moreover, try to emphasize Public schools more as they grow the literacy rate compared to other schools.

How to reach 100% literacy rate?

Victoria 3 Literacy

In the game, you can achieve a 100-percent literacy rate for your country. However, that will only be possible once your Educational institution reaches level 5. The entire process involved is fairly complex.

Firstly, you need to gather a lot of Bureaucracy, which is the price you pay for obtaining levels of education. Moreover, you also need to unlock some technologies from your society’s Technology Tree.

Rationalism, Empiricism, and Dialectics are technologies that will allow you to put points in each of them and reach level 3 in your educational institutions.

However, to increase the institution level further, you need to unlock the Human Rights technologies from the society tree. This technology will help you pass children’s rights laws, which are essential for further improvement in the literacy rate.

You need to move to the Law tab present on the Politics screen and the Law group showing Children’s Rights. You must pass two laws: Restricted Child Labour and Compulsory Primary Education.

The passing of these laws will boost your education level to 5 points. It simply means at five levels, every human in the future will be literate, and your nation will lead the development of advanced technologies.

Literacy cheat command

Some basic cheat commands can be used to increase literacy directly or indirectly. Building more institutions, fast hiring, and increasing bureaucracy help increase literacy.

Cheat CodeFunction
fasthireEnables fast hire mode
fastinstitutionsEnables fast institution mode
fastbuildEnables fast build mode and helps in increasing bureaucracy

Ali Hasan is writer at SegmentNext.com with a deep love for immersive action role-playing games and well-crafted narratives. His weapons of choice include controllers and keyboards.