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The Rise of Homo Idioticus (www.psychologytoday.com)

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 13 points 15 hours ago

The U.S. paints a similarly bleak picture. Roughly 45 million Americans read below a fifth-grade level.

I assume that they actually mean adult Americans, as a considerable number of Americans haven't gotten to fifth grade yet.

https://www.populationpyramid.net/united-states-of-america/2026/

About 40 million.

I would guess that immigration is gonna be the major variable in US literacy levels, since you're going to have a significant chunk of people learning English as a second language.

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https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2019/2019179/index.asp

U.S.-born adults make up two-thirds of adults with low levels of English literacy skills in the United States. However, the non-U.S. born are over-represented among such low-skilled adults. Non-U.S.-born adults comprise 34 percent of the population with low literacy skills, compared to 15 percent of the total population (figure 2).

White and Hispanic adults make up the largest percentage of U.S. adults with low levels of English literacy, 35 percent and 34 percent respectively (figure 3).

Yeah.