That seems high, because I think the literacy rate today is lower. I guess it depends on how you define literacy, though.
Four in five U.S. adults (79 percent) have English literacy skills sufficient to complete tasks that require comparing and contrasting information, paraphrasing, or making low-level inferences—literacy skills at level 2 or above in PIAAC (OECD 2013). In contrast, one in five U.S. adults (21 percent) has difficulty completing these tasks (figure 1)
The US adult literacy rate was 91% in the year 1910.
Ah, well, then I stand corrected. I was just looking for an excuse to drop an old timey comic anywho.
That seems high, because I think the literacy rate today is lower. I guess it depends on how you define literacy, though.
https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2019/2019179/index.asp