TJ Walker (YouTube) highlights a major global improvement in literacy: world literacy rose from 42% in 1960 to 87% today. He emphasizes that much of the gain involved educating young girls and women, who previously made up about two-thirds of the world’s illiterate population, and frames this as a significant humanitarian achievement.
As recently as 1960, only 42% people in the world could read. Today, 87%. That's a huge improvement. Most of all, we've taken young girls and women who were two thirds of the illiterate of the world, and given them a shot at reading and education, too. This is huge improvement for all of humanity.
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