Age 16 to 65
Literacy: 16th of 31 developed nations, our peers are Czechia and Croatia.
Numeracy: 25th of 31, our peers are Italy and Lithuania.
Problem Solving: 19th of 31, our peers are Czechia and Slovakia.
Age 16 to 24 (our future direction)
Literacy: 21 of 31 developed nations.
Numeracy: 29 of 31
Problem Solving: 21 of 31
We had the highest inequality of outcome in both Literacy and Numeracy and the 2nd highest inequality of outcome in Problem Solving.
Comparing people with a college degree, the USA was 14th of 31 in Literacy, 18th of 31 in numeracy, and 15th of 31 in Problem Solving. Comparing those with a STEM degree the USA was 20th in numeracy.
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