Literacy
Literacy is a certain degree of a person’s proficiency in reading and writing skills in accordance with the grammatical norms of the native language.
One of the most important indicators of the socio-cultural development of the population. The specific content of the concept of “literacy” has changed historically, expanding with the growth of social requirements for the socialization of the individual: from the simple ability to read – to the ability to read, write and perform elementary calculations. In the last decades of the 20th century, in countries that have achieved universal literacy of the population, an indicator of the general level of education of the population is used.
The literacy indicator retains its significance in the historical assessment of the development of culture.
According to UN statistics, in 2000 there were 862 million illiterates (aged 15 and over) in the world, which is about 20% of the world’s adult population. In order to attract public attention to this problem, in 2001 the UN proclaimed the 10th anniversary of literacy (2003-12) and set a specific task: by purposeful work with the relevant local sociocultural categories of the population, to significantly raise the level of literacy. Since 1966, International Literacy Day has been celebrated (8 September).
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