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Almost Nobody Could Read 200 Years Ago 📚 #Shorts #LessonToday
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Three takeaways
- In 1820 only about 1 in 10 adults in the world could read and write.
- Schools spread, global literacy more than doubled over the 1800s, and the 1900s brought even faster progress.
- Today the global adult literacy rate is about 87%, which means more than 5 billion people can read and write, compared with fewer than 100 million two centuries ago.
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