The UK: Literacy and Numeracy

Almost at the bottom of the OECD class...

About the OECD Survey of Adult Skills

First Results (OECD Report, pdf)

The Independent

Trailing the industrialised world (BBC)

Numeracy test 16 to 24-year-olds

1.Netherlands
2.Finland
3.Japan
4.Flanders (Belgium)
5.South Korea
6.Austria
7.Estonia
8.Sweden
9.Czech Republic
10.Slovak Republic
11.Germany
12.Denmark
13.Norway
14.Australia
15.Poland
16.Canada
17.Cyprus
18.Northern Ireland
19.France
20.Ireland
21.England
22.Spain
23.Italy
24.United States

Source: OECD Survey of Adult Skills 2013