Literate but not reading.

He’s increasingly an outlier. Even as global literacy rates are high (84%), people are reading less and less deeply.

The National Endowment for the Arts has found that “[r]eading has declined among every group of adult Americans,” and for the first time in American history, “less than half of the U.S. adult American population is reading literature.”

Literacy has been improving in countries like India and China, but that literacy may not translate into more or deeper reading.