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    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). In contrast, one in five U.S. adults (21 percent) has difficulty completing these tasks (figure 1). This translates into 43.0 million U.S. adults who possess low literacy skills

    Source: https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2019/2019179/index.asp

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        If you didn’t look at this list and ask “Why did they pick these countries and leave out others?” you’re not doing critical thinking. The countries with the highest literacy in the world are almost all either socialist or formerly socialist countries.

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            Hexbear blocks externally hosted images so I can’t see that. Can you edit it and put it in the instance properly with copy paste?

            because it only uses oecd member countries

            Ahh yes, the “international community”.