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Yeah the sentiment roughly matches my experience but the numbers don’t seem right. They suggest there are more outright illiterate people than functionally illiterate people.
They don’t cite any sources so the numbers are probably extrapolated from various studies with different definitions of literacy (if they aren’t just made up).
If I had to guess I’d imagine the simple majority of people are functionally illiterate, potentially an absolute majority depending on what we mean by functional. Like most people are capable of reading road signs but that doesn’t mean they can critically analyze a complex sentence.
I think I can count on one hand the number of people I know who read even one book a year.