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For interest, I just look at the US literacy rates.
One issue is determining what you mean by literacy.
One study showed the 21 - 24% of Americans were not "able to locate information in text."
Another study showed that 40% were at basic or below basic skills in Prose, Document, and Quantitative skills.
Another reports that only about 15% are fully literate (reading at the college undergraduate level). The "average" American reads at the th or 8th grade level.
Another says that 1 in 7 (14) cannot read anything more challenging than a child's picture book.
Kind of a sorry state. And makes me wonder even more about our education system.
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