Figure 4 presents information about the degree of inequality in the distribution of prose literacy scores among the young population aged 16-25 in 21 countries. The estimates are obtained by comparing the prose literacy mean score of those at the 90th percentile to those at the 10th percentile.
Inequality in the distribution of literacy (90th percentile/10th percentile) within countries, prose scale, population aged 16-25, 1992-1998
Legend:
Nation with literacy inequality higher than the United States
Nation with literacy inequality equal to the United States
Nation with literacy inequality lower than the United States
COUNTRIES ARE RANKED BY LITERACY INEQUALITY.
Source: International Adult Literacy Survey, 1994-1998; US National Adult Literacy Survey, 1992.