About five million working age adults in England—one in seven of the working age population—have below-functional literacy skills, according to a government survey conducted in 2011. That means they ...

Between 2012 and 2017, a survey was conducted with 12,330 U.S. adults aged 16 to 74 to assess their numeracy and literacy proficiency. Adults scoring between 226 and 276 are “nearing proficiency ...

The full report says there was an improvement in adult literacy between 2003 and 2011, but that at a national level 24% (8.1 million people) lack basic numeracy skills, while 15% (5.1 million ...

For the first time we have levels for numeracy. The survey showed that 25 per cent were at or below level 1 here. This places Ireland even farther down the international rankings at 19th place.