Historical cross-country literacy rates

Roser, Max, and Esteban Ortiz-Ospina, “Literacy,” Our World In Data, 2016.

• Used by Henderson et al. 2018 (Figure IV)

Van Zanden et al. (2014), pp. 89-90, note that the UNESCO report on the Progress of Literacy in Various Countries Since 1900 porivdes 173 observations for 30 countries for the period before 1950.