Claim: British youngsters are the "most illiterate" in the developed world.
Fact-check: Ask Full Fact: Are British youngsters the most illiterate in the developed world? - Full Fact
Verdict: the report this is based on didn't say that british youngsters were the most "illiterate" as such. it said the proportion of 16-19 year olds in england who have "low literacy" is the highest of 23 countries and regions in the oecd. having low literacy skills involved having difficulty with simple written information, such as not being able to fully understand instructions on a bottle of aspirin.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Amy Sippitt
Date published: 2016-02-11T00:00:00