What percentage of the American population are illiterate?

Question

What percentager of the American population are illiterate?

Answer 1

What 'percentager'.

A high amount, I would say.

Answer 2

I learnt in geography that most of the richer countries have an adult literacy rate of 98 - 99%, so it would be about 1 - 2% illiterate.

Meaning that 3,049,511 adults in the US are illiterate, out of  304,951,123.

Answer 3

3 or 4%...

BTW safa T doesn't know anything about it.

Answer 4

I'm pretty sure it's less than 1%, and very near 0%.

Edit: I'm using the most basic definition of "illiterate," as in totally unable to read or write one's primary speaking language. I agree with another poster that a substantial portion of the American population is functionally illiterate. Just look around this forum...

Answer 5

I dont know - but I have dated someone that was illiterate - and knew another guy that said he was - but I really think he could read - at least a little.  

Answer 6

a lot!

lol

Answer 7

if one is specialist in one subject, he is illiterate in other subjects

Answer 8

Over 90 million US adults, nearly one out of two, are functionally illiterate or near illiterate, without the minimum skills required in a modern society.

Answer 9

I read this in a college book before. By Johnathon Kozol. They state that over 40million adults are illerterate.