According to the United Nations it is 18%, being worst in London, the North and North East. This is "functional illiteracy" defined as being "unable to cope with the demands of modern life". This would imply that a higher standard is required in an advanced society than in one less so. There is also the question of how many of these alleged 8 million are native English speakers. I am a social worker living in London and I rarely meet anyone who is not a recent immigrant who is iiliterate, although many people require assistance with filling in 50 page forms, appealing against innumerable parking fines and increasing bureaucratic intrusion into normal life. There is a high circulation of newspapers- some of which are perhaps aimed at the functionally illterate- but even these require a basic ability. Even if children do not complete school, the leaving age was formerly 14, which was sufficient for most people to learn to read. Many children are able to read Harry Potter from the age of 7, but whether they could fill in an IB50 Benefit Review Form is perhaps a different question. The UK was 14th from a group of 20 industrial countries in the number of adults reading at least one book a week. This may be due to the better quality of television and other media in Britain. So I wonder who the UN have been talking to ? -Mark Francis
The illiteracy rate in the dominican republic is: 13.0
89%
About 70% of the population is illitereate.
57.9% according to wikipedia
It is the state of Kerala.
In a developing country, illiteracy would lower the rate of social development because of a loss of communication speed.
It is the percentage of a given population who are unable to read or write.
A high rate of adult illiteracy limits the progress and production that a country can make in today's modern world. The country has to rely on imports for many modern conveniences.
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The total population literacy rate of India is 61%. See the Related Links. The second link was not accepted by WikiAnswers so here is the URL for it: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/print/in.HTML; literacy rate in India and illiteracy rate in India.how much female literacy and illiteracy?how much male literacy and illiteracy?
The literacy rate in Germany for both males and females is 99% this would imply that up to 1% are literate.
The literacy rate in 2008 was 55% and illiteracy rate was 45%.