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 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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