Abstract
The main purpose of this study uses the raw data which collected from the World Development Report (1978–1999) and Education Statistics of the ROC (2000) about the ratio of total illiterate (the ratio of male and female) data to understand the relation among the ratio of illiterate, the per capital income, and the ratio of population, gender difference in the ratio of total illiterate, and use Taiwan’s data to compare the average of world illiterate. These results are as follows: First, the hypothesis is that the higher per capital income are in the countries, the lesser of the ratio of illiterate are. The higher the ratio of annual population growth are in the countries, the higher of the ratio of illiterate are. That is, the hypothesis which among the ratio of illiterate, the per capital, and the ratio of population are negative and positive significant respectively is proved in 1970–1999. Second, the gender difference in the ratio of illiterate is significant in 1970–1999. Third, there are also about 875 millions illiterate people in the world, and there are about 820 thousands illiterate person in Taiwan. According to these results, it provide some suggestions for those countries to improve the problem of illiterate.
| Keywords: | the ratio of illiterate; per capital income; the ratio of population growth |
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