Related research and data

• Ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning
• Literacy

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• Adult literacy rate
• Data instruments used to estimate literacy
• Estimated historical literacy rates
• Female youth literacy rate
• Gender parity in youth literacy rates
• 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 vs. womenScatterplot
• Literacy rate vs. GDP per capita
• Literacy rate vs. average years of schooling
• Literacy rates of older vs. younger population
• 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, survey estimates vs. official UNESCO estimates
• Literate and illiterate world population
• Male youth literacy rate
• Methodologies used for measuring literacy
• Numeracy skills of adults young adults vs adults
• Numeracy vs. literacy skills of adults
• Share of the population with basic numeracy skills
• Students in grade 2 who can't read a single word
• UNESCO literacy rate vs. PIAAC literacy proficiency