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National Literacy Rates
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CURRENT ISSUES
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6 / 2003 |
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Stephen P. Heyneman is professor of international education
policy at Vanderbilt University. |
A country's literacy rate is the percentage of its adult population who can read and write. Nations may have unique methods to define literacy; for example, categorizing people as young as nine as adults. Some of the data are decades old.
Nation or Territory Percent Adult Literacy
Denmark 100
Finland 100
Norway 100
Australia 100
Czech Republic 100
Germany 99
United Kingdom 99
France 99
Japan 99
Korea, North 99
Netherlands 99
Sweden 99
Switzerland 99
New Zealand 99
Poland 99
Hungary 99
Italy 98
Ireland
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