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Literacy in the United States was categorized by the National Center for Education Statistics into different literacy levels, with 92% of American adults having at least "Level 1" literacy in 2014. [1] Nationally, over 20% of adult Americans have a literacy proficiency at or below Level 1.
The enrollment rate for 7- to 13-year-olds has been 99 percent or better since the late 1940s, but the rate for the 14- to 17-year-olds has exhibited significant increases since that period. During the 1950s, the enrollment rate of 14- to 17-year-olds rose from 83 percent to 90 percent.
Data published by the geographic data and statistics website World Atlas confirmed that the U.S. was ranked 125th with a literacy rate of 86%, just after Oman and just before the Syian Arab...
On average, 79% of U.S. adults nationwide are literate in 2024. 21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2024. 54% of adults have a literacy below a 6th-grade level (20% are below 5th-grade level). Low levels of literacy costs the US up to 2.2 trillion per year. 34% of adults lacking literacy proficiency were born outside the US.
What are the rates of literacy in the United States? Four in five U.S. adults (79 percent) have English literacy skills sufficient to complete tasks that require comparing and contrasting information, paraphrasing, or making low-level inferences—literacy skills at level 2 or above in PIAAC (OECD 2013).
Figure illustrates the proportion of people who are deemed literate. The year 1451 refers to the period 1451-1500, while the years 1501, 1601, and 1701 represent the century.
Most Recent Value. Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) - United States from The World Bank: Data.
While the studies showed that returning to in-person learning did increase literacy rates, by 2022, literacy rates were still below 2019 numbers. Adults: In the United States, 4 in 5 adults are literate, but more than 130 million adults have low literacy skills.
Literacy rate, adult total, % of people ages 15 and above, 1970–2022
Of the world population older than 15 years, the majority are literate. This interactive map shows how literacy rates vary around the world. In many countries, more than 95% have basic literacy skills. Literacy skills of the majority of the population are a modern achievement as we show below.