how is the illiteracy responsible for poverty in India? Explain
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Today is International Literacy Day - and around 900 million people in the world cannot read or write.
287 million, or 37% of the world’s illiterate people, are Indian according to UNESCO.
While education is every child’s basic right, severe poverty and deprivation, population growth, war zones and natural catastrophes are depriving many children of a world of books and learning.
India’s literacy rate is about 74% - leaving a quarter of the population without basic reading and writing skills.
Poverty and illiteracy are closely linked - and with the second largest population in the world, India is home to one-third of all world poverty.
While 22% of Indians fall below the poverty line, it has been estimated that more than half of the nation’s population lacks even basic literacy skills.
India’s poverty situation is improving but problems related to poor health and sanitation, low levels of education, unemployment and malnutrition, remain.