Education > Young shorttext readers: Countries Compared

DEFINITION: Share of 15-year-olds who are frequent shorttext (particularly comics) readers (2000).

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#	COUNTRY	AMOUNT	DATE
1	Japan	74.5%	2000
2	Finland	66.9%	2000
3	Norway	58%	2000
4	Denmark	56.2%	2000
5	South Korea	52.2%	2000
6	Iceland	49.7%	2000
7	Sweden	37.3%	2000
8	France	31.7%	2000
9	Belgium	31.6%	2000
	High income OECD countries average (profile)	28.8%	2000
10	Italy	26.4%	2000
	Group of 7 countries (G7) average (profile)	25.71%	2000
11	Switzerland	25.4%	2000
12	Portugal	24.6%	2000
13	Mexico	22.2%	2000
14	Greece	21.5%	2000
15	Hungary	20.1%	2000
16	Luxembourg	19.4%	2000
17	Czech Republic	18.9%	2000
18	Spain	17.7%	2000
19	Austria	17.2%	2000
20	Canada	16.2%	2000
21	New Zealand	12.4%	2000
22	Germany	11.7%	2000
23	Poland	11.4%	2000
24	United States	11%	2000
25	Australia	10.6%	2000
26	Ireland	8.9%	2000
27	United Kingdom	8.5%	2000

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