Functional literacy rate in 10-64 age group 91.6% in 2019, PSA says
December 13, 2020 | 6:57 pm
FUNCTIONAL LITERACY in the 10-64 age group was 91.6% in 2019, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said, citing the results of its Functional Literacy, Education and Mass Media Survey.
The 2019 rate was higher than the 90.3% rate recorded in the 2013 study. This corresponds to around 73.01 million functionally literate out of a total of 79.75 million. In 2013 the corresponding totals were 62.70 million out of 69.44 million.
Some 53.4% of Filipinos in the target age segment had completed at least four years of secondary education, with 24.3% deemed able to “read, write, compute, and comprehend,” while 13.8% only capable of reading, writing, and computing.