Austria's reading problems: Shocking numbers in adult Pisa!

Austria shows worrying reading problems: In an international comparison, the country is below the OECD average. According to current data from the Piaac test, Austria only achieves 254 out of 300 possible points and has an alarming increase from 16 to 27 percent of adults who can only manage the simplest reading tasks. This is a striking increase, since in the OECD average only 26 percent of those surveyed fight with this low competence. However, it is particularly gratifying that the proportion of particularly good readers has slightly increased from 9 to 10 percent, which remains worrying compared to the OECD rate of 12 percent. This shows that Austria's adults are seriously lagging behind when it comes to reading and writing, as has already been reported by the

Global literacy focuses on, with the world being on the sidelines of a war of knowledge. In 2020, the global literacy rate was 86.7 percent over 14-year-olds. While Europe and Central Asia are ahead with almost 98 percent, countries in Africa south of the Sahara are fighting with alarming 66 percent. The difference between the sexes is also striking: only 83 percent of women can read and write, compared to 90 percent of men. Poor educational systems and social barriers keep many women and girls from fundamental education, which underlines the urgency of the situation, as in an analysis of