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World Literacy: How Countries Rank and Why it Matters.
Central Connecticut State University: March 2016
The World’s Most Literate
Nations (WMLN) ranks
nations on—not their populace’s ability to read but rather—their
populace’s literate behaviors and their supporting resources. The
rankings are based on five categories standing as indicators of the literate
health of nations: libraries, newspapers, education inputs and outputs, and
computer availability. This multidimensional approach to literacy speaks to the
social, economic, and governmental powers of nations around the globe.
A companion book, World Literacy: How Countries Rank and Why It Matters
(Routledge, 2016) by John W. Miller and Michael C. McKenna provides an extended
analysis of many of the factors involved in the WMLN study, and this source may
be helpful in interpreting the results.
The power and value of being literate in a
literate society is played out every day around the world. Many individuals,
and even whole societies, make considerable sacrifices to become literate just
as others take it for granted. Societies that do not practice literate behavior
are often squalid, undernourished in mind and body, repressive of human rights
and dignity, brutal, and harsh.
In fact, what the WMLN rankings strongly
suggest and World Literacy
demonstrates is that these kinds of literate behaviors are critical to the
success of individuals and nations in the knowledge-based economies that define
our global future.
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