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• Adult literacy rate
• Adult numeracy proficiency, PIAAC
• Data instruments used to estimate literacy
• Estimated historical literacy rates
• Female youth literacy rate
• Historical literacy in England, by sex
• Literacy by years of schooling, United States
• Literacy rate
• Literacy rate in adult men
• Literacy rate in adult women
• Literacy rate of young men and women
• Literacy rate of young men vs. womenScatterplot
• Literacy rate vs. GDP per capita
• Literacy rates of older vs. younger population
• Literacy rates vs. average years of schooling
• Literacy rates, adult female, one-sentence test (DHS) vs. self-reports (UNESCO)
• Literacy rates, adult male, one-sentence test (DHS) vs. self-reports (UNESCO)
• Literacy rates, one-sentence test vs. official estimate
• Literate and illiterate world population
• Methodologies used for measuring literacy
• Numeracy skills of adults young adults and adults, 2015
• Numeracy vs. literacy skills of adults
• Share of the population with basic numeracy skills by birth decade
• Students in grade 2 who can't read a single word
• UNESCO literacy rate vs. PIAAC literacy proficiency
• Youth literacy rates, gender parity index (GPI)