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Is your country becoming smarter of dumber?

The OECD also did an international survey called PIAAC, that aims to measure the "the key cognitive and workplace skills needed for individuals to participate in society and for economies to prosper".

This skills surveys put Finland and Japan at the top of the rankings of the participating countries, in these countries 1 of every 5 adults has the highest skills in numeracy, literacy and problem solving best placed to success in 21 th century economy, meanwhile in Italy and Spain the numbers are 1 out of every 20.
Some countries have made more progress than others, for example South Korea 55-65 years old are about the level of Italians and Spaniards of the same age, but among 16-24 years old Koreans they are only second to Japan, even more impressive young Koreans with a high-school diploma are a little better in reading and numeracy than Italians with a university degree.