If you didn't look at this list and ask "Why did they pick these countries and leave out others?" you're not doing critical thinking. The countries with the highest literacy in the world are almost all either socialist or formerly socialist countries.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's an OECD report. They're comparing to OECD countries and I'd take the Polish numbers with a grain of salt as they have quite a couple fewer refugees, modulo Ukrainians (Ukraine has an education system ballpark Greece or Italy).

Public school and universal literacy was literally invented in Germany (Luther was lobbying princes for it so people could read the bible).