Monday 4 June 2012

Illiteracy According to UNESCO & Its Statistics

Summary:
Summarizing the whole article The illiteracy is the inability to read and write, which is usually due to the lack of learning. In countries that have compulsory education, illiteracy is found in a minority. Good for the citizens because a nation can’t progress till it don’t have literate people.

Illiteracy & Legal Codes:
In some countries, reading comprehension may be poor despite their illiteracy rate is small (functional illiteracy), and that reading is not only decode the letters but to understand written messages. In some countries laws have special provisions for illiterate. For example, the Spanish Civil Code provides that those illiterates who wish to provide closed will, and ask someone else to write it, must sign on each of the pages.

Definition of UNESCO
UNESCO defines the 1958 illiteracy as the condition of a person who can neither read nor write, dividing the world into literates and illiterates simplifies the nature of literacy. Today, the UNESCO definition has become more complex and relies largely on individual's ability to decipher the environment and contribute to the society in which they live. Statistically, it tends to detect the set of skills for literacy that can be applied in functional activities typical of everyday life, e,g read the bus timetable, dialing a cell phone number or reading a computer email.

UNESCO Statictics:
UNESCO Institute for Statistics launched the LAMP project, which aims to define and measure in  developing countries a range of people who have writing skills. About two-thirds of illiterates are found in only 9 countries and 45% of 771 million live in India and China (34% and 11% respectively). 82% of the world population is considered literate (87% men and 77% women) but this figure hides large differences by region: in Asia South and West, in 'Africa in black and Arab states only 60% of the population can write (and sometimes only 50% of women). But in Latin America, the Caribbean, East Asia and the Pacific, the alphabets are about 90% but this region has the same 22% of illiterates in the world.


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