literacy rate
Population reading measure
Literacy rate is the percentage of a population that can read and write at a basic level.
Countries and organizations use it as a measure of educational development: The literacy rate in that region has climbed to 95 percent.
Definitions of "literate" vary—some standards require only signing one's name, others demand functional reading comprehension.
- reading levelText difficulty rating
- numeracyAbility with figures
- standardized testingIdentical assessments across populations
- GDPNational output abbreviation
- school enrollmentFormal admission to education
primary school · indigenous languages · developing countries · cultural capital · academic achievement · learning outcomes · education reform · public education · educational attainment · poverty reduction · language acquisition · teacher training programs · reading comprehension · writing · gender · population · percentage · census data
- development statisticsdemographic data, poverty rates, population data, life expectancy, infant mortality
- demographicspopulation density, population growth, age distribution, population, gender ratio
- rankingsrankings, first, college rankings, second, third
- ratesroyalty, per diem, interest rates, exchange rates, percentage
- country statisticspopulation, GDP, life expectancy, demographics, median age
- education inequalityachievement gap, inequality, opportunity gap, social mobility, class divide
literacy ratemortality rate
Deaths per population measured
infant mortality rate · poverty rate · infant mortality · unemployment rate · life expectancy