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The world is a big place (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (3 children)

The US ranks 36th in literacy.

This is a deceptive statistic. It merely indicates that many countries like Uzbekistan and North Korea falsely report 100% literacy rates. Look here. The USA literacy rate is actually about the same as that of other wealthy Western democracies.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

North Korea probably does have high literacy so the people can read and understand all the propaganda.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 15 hours ago

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

You are right. Very interesting link, thanks !