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  2. List of countries by literacy rate - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 8 February 2025. This article needs to be updated. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (March 2022) World map of countries shaded according to the literacy rate for all people aged 15 and over This is a list of countries by literacy rate. The global ...

  3. International Literacy Day - Wikipedia

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    Countries with the lowest literacy rates in the world are Burkina Faso (12.8%), Niger (14.4%) and Mali (19%). The report shows a clear connection between illiteracy and countries in extreme poverty, also between illiteracy and prejudice against women. [9]

  4. Functional illiteracy - Wikipedia

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    According to the National Center for Educational Statistics in the United States: [8] About 70% of adults in the U.S. prison system read at or below the fourth-grade level, according to the 2003 National Adult Literacy Survey, noting that a "link between academic failure and delinquency, violence and crime is welded to reading failure." [9]

  5. Demographics of the world - Wikipedia

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    The current world population growth is approximately 1.09%. [5] People under 15 years of age made up over a quarter of the world population (25.18%), and people age 65 and over made up nearly ten percent (9.69%) in 2021. [5] The world's literacy rate has increased dramatically in the last 40 years, from 66.7% in 1979 to 86.3% today. [13]

  6. International Literacy Foundation - Wikipedia

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    The organisation has a mandate of alleviating illiteracy throughout the world. The core belief of the organisation and its affiliates is that literacy is the key to reducing poverty and therefore raising living standards around the world. It maintains a focus on individual causes, with the potential to make am impact on underprivileged groups ...

  7. The US Is Missing Out on $2 Trillion a Year Due to Illiteracy ...

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    The best, or swiftest, way to tackle illiteracy is to work with people when they are still very young. “Engaging children in conversation builds grammar skills, language structure and vocabulary ...

  8. Inside America’s longstanding financial literacy problem ...

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    Most adults are making financial decisions with a poor level of financial literacy, according to the Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center and TIAA, with Gen Z having the poorest literacy ...

  9. Talk:List of countries by literacy rate/Archive 1 - Wikipedia

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    The only source for this article the United Nations Development Programme Report 2005 lists Greece as having a literacy rate of 91% (see page eleven list number 24 of the pdf file), however this article lists it as 97.5%. If there is evidence for a literacy rate of 97.5% in Greece it needs a citation.