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Redwolflake15

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What can you say about where in the world literacy rates are high and low? Where does the United States stand in terms of literacy?
 
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The average American's carbon __________ is twenty-three times bigger than that of the average Indian.
 
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 Literacy: the ability to read and write.
 More than 800 million of the world's adults (about one in six) are still illiterate.
 Illiteracy rates are highoften more than 50 percentin poor regions of the world.
 Most young people living in rich nations complete both primary and secondary school.
 In the United States, 88 percent of adults over the age of twenty-five have completed high school
 The United States is second in the world (after Norway) in the share of its adult population that goes to college: Thirty-two percent of the U.S. population aged twenty-five and older has a four-year college or university degree
 As many as 30 million Americans (14 percent of the population) are functionally illiterate.

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