Boys' Brigade, 50th Company

Boys' Brigade, 50th Company

Learn more about Literacy!

Hello there! Welcome to our blog!

We are a group of cadets from the Singapore 50th Boys' Brigade Company searching for ways to share with you our research on 'Literacy In Our World'.

This is so that we may be well prepared with the knowledge of the global issue, people are facing with Literacy.

We also aim to identify the implications this global issue have on us and the world.

By knowing more, we could make informed decisions before providing service and giving assistance to our community.

Do take a look around our blog and have fun learning more about the world issue on Literacy!


Literacy in Singapore

Education in Singapore


Singapore Education and Literacy Statistics
In 2013, 

Singapore has a literacy rate of 96.5%.
98.5% of males are literate.
94.6% of females are literate.

68.6% attained Secondary or Higher Qualifications.
71.6% of males attained these qualifications.
66.0% of females attained these qualifications.

Singapore has a mean of 10.5 years of schooling.
Males have a mean of 11 years of schooling.
Females have a mean of 10 years of schooling. 
Literacy rates, percentage of population with secondary or higher qualifications and mean years of schooling has slightly increased ever since the previous recorded data was taken.

 Source:  http://www.singstat.gov.sg/statistics/latest_data.html

According to the CIA(Central Intelligence Agency) The World Factbook,


 Singapore has 95.9% of the population aged 15 years old and above that can read and write.
98% of males can read and write.
93.8% of females can read and write.

 
The World has 84.1% of the population aged 15 years old and above that can read and write.
88.6% of males can read and write.
79.7% of females can read and write.

*The World has an approximate amount of 775 million illiterate(not able to read and write) adults.
 *An approximate of 581.25 million illiterate adults are found in only ten countries.
(India, China, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria ,Ethiopia ,Egypt ,Brazil ,Indonesia ,Democratic Republic of Congo)
*2/3 of all the illiterate adults are women
* Extremely low literacy rates are concentrated in South and West Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Source: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2103.html#136


From these two diagrams, we can observe that Singapore has a literacy rate above the average country literacy rates. It could also be observed that the literacy rates of males tends to be higher than females in any population.