There are nine countries in the world with 100 per cent literacy rates: Andorra, Finland, Greenland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Norway, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and North Korea.

The National Literacy Institute (NLI) findings suggest that 40% of fourth graders read below the basic National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) levels, falling from what it was in 2022.

International Literacy Day 2026 will be observed on September 8. Know this year’s theme, global literacy rate, history, significance and key facts about literacy worldwide.

Literacy sounds like a simple thing to measure. Either you can read a sentence or you can't. Yet when you look closely at how nations report this figure, the picture gets more interesting, and a small ...