What is meant by literacy rate? Why is it considered an important indictor in population composition?
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Answer:
literacy rate means total amount of percentage of educated peoples living in the city or state or country
Explanation:
literate person means who can read, write and explain his thoughts with help of knowledge.
It is important to know rate of literacy so to distribute the carriers among the citizens
Answer:
The literacy rate of a country or state is called the ratio of the total population of the people there and the number of educated people. Mostly it is represented in percentage.
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The mathematical formula to understand this is: literacy rate percent = educated population / total population
That is, how many people are literate out of every hundred people.
Situation in India
At the time of independence, India's literacy rate was only twelve (12%) percent, which has increased to about seventy-four (6%) percent. But even now, India is far behind the normal rate of the world (forty five percent). India has the largest illiterate population in the world.