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Literacy by the numbers

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37% US 4th-graders who already read below “basic” level on a national reading test.
9 million Canadians ages 16 to 65 below “desired” level of reading proficiency.
3,000 vs. 20,000 Respectively, listening vocabularies of beginning US kindergarten students from a low-income family and from a middle-income family.
50% Canadians with the lowest level of prose literacy proficiency who engage in civic activities.
80% Canadians with the highest levels of prose literacy proficiency who engage in civic activities.
40 million US adults who can’t read a simple story to a child.
10 million US teens who reach 12th grade without learning to read at a basic level.
0 Degree of change in Canadian literacy performance between 1994 and 2003.
19% US 8th-graders who report they read for fun on a daily basis.
799 million adults worldwide are illiterate.
6.4% decline in illiteracy among African women.