Usa Literacy Rate 2024 State Wise. 21% of adults in the us are illiterate in 2024. Adult literacy rate is the percentage of people ages 15 and above who can both read and write with understanding a short simple statement about their everyday life.

 — world bank, “world bank education statistics (edstats) 2023”;  — north dakota has a literacy rate of 93.7% making it the nation’s 3rd highest.