Stan's Cafe Theatre Company: Of All The People In All The World: Statistics Centre

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Welcome to the Of All The People In All The World Statistics Centre. Here you can read statistics that have already been submitted for inclusion in the show and you can make your own submissions.

Simply fill in the form below and send us your statistic. Remember in the show 1 Grain = 1 Person so your statistics must be measured in people. We'd also like to know why you have chosen this statistic and what your source is. We can only use statistics in the show if we are happy that they are true. Good Luck and Thank You.

Thank you for submitting your statistic. It will be checked and verified by the Statistics Centre before being posted online.

Illiterate Adults In The World: 781,000,000

Chosen: One of my cousins is an illiterate adult and its shocking how much not being able to read can affect a person's self esteem and will power. This personal experience coupled with the fact that 64% are females showing that perhaps women aren't even given the opportunity to learn to read makes this a powerful statistic.

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics

Submitted By: David Janove

1 Comments:

Stan's Cafe said...: Thanks very much for this David. I like your reasoning very much. That number is way too big for us to use in the version of the show we are currently running at the Skirball, it would use almost all our rice, but your contribution promoted me to try and find a figure for the USA. What a world of pain/fascination that turned out to be. Obviously there are various ways of grading illiteracy and the best I could find from the National Assessment of Adult Literacy was a figure of 7,000,000 who couldn't answer simple test questions an additional 4,000,000 for whom language barriers prevented them from actually taking the test. Presumably a proportion of these could be highly literate in languages other than English.

Then there is the whole link between illiteracy and the prison population...

Thanks for that great can of worms,we'll keep at it.; 12:51 PM

Illiterate Adults In The World: 781,000,000

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