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How can maintaining a high literacy rate positively affect a nation's standard

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Literacy rate is the amount of people in a country who can read and

write. High rates of literacy are often found in developed of industrialized

countries. Most of Europe has a high literacy rate. More industrialized

countries are wealthier and can provide education, health care, and

technology to its citizens.

Gross domestic product (GDP) is the total value of goods and services

produced in a country. Gross domestic product per capita (GDP per capita) is

the total of the goods and services produced in a country divided by the

number of people in the country. GDP per capita gives an idea of the

standard living, or how well people live in that nation. GDP per capita is often

thought of as the average income of the people in the country. Remember, it

is an average, with some people far above the average, and many people

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