It was part of my elementary school curriculum :/ and that was 22 years ago.

(In the Netherlands, and of course we used typewriters, since we didn’t have that many computers yet)

Edit: modified for clarity based on comment

I'm pretty sure computers were not so rare in the Netherlands in 1999!

Fair point.

I meant, we had computers, but not a whole class full of them. Teaching kids one by one on the one computer per class would have been very inefficient.

Modified the original comment.

I don't think so; the causation would be in the opposite direction.

A lot of experience typing (code) would tend to make someone more likely to pursue and complete a CS degree.