Message-ID: <19990119175557.AAA24338@LOCALNAME> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 13:55:35 -0400 From: Kerry Miller <mailto:kerryo@NS.SYMPATICO.CA> Subject: Re: literacy rates To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
{ I recall in 1985 reading a column by Ellen Goodman, and questioning her
{ statement of fact that Finland had a 100 percent literacy rate. -Ross
{
Who you gonna call?
The CIA Factbook
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/
(Frames version)
reports (for total population, age 15 and over can read and write):
Denmark: 99% (1980)
Finland: 100% (1980)
Iceland 100% (1976)
Sweden 99% (1979)
Cuba 95.7 (1995)
Israel 95% (1992)
Tonga 100% (1976)
USA 97% (1979)