what is the average literacy rate of a developed nation?
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http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html\n\nis a fun site, sorry I dont know the developed nation worldwide figures, but this will give you a good idea if you look at some of the key nations.  Without searching through it myself, I would guess the literacy rate to be around 95%, give or take.\n\nedit: the US currently has 99% literacy\n2nd edit: though you wouldnt believe it if you spent enough time reading some of the questions/answers on Yahoo Answers.
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The UN Human Development Index (HDI) is a comparative measure of poverty, literacy, education, life expectancy, childbirth, and other factors for countries worldwide. It is a standard means of measuring well-being, especially child welfare. The index was developed in 1990 by the Pakistani economist Mahbub ul Haq, and has been used since 1993 by the United Nations Development Programme in its annual report.\n\nThe HDI measures the average achievements in a country in three basic dimensions of human development:\n\nA long and healthy life, as measured by life expectancy at birth. \nKnowledge, as measured by the adult literacy rate (with two-thirds weight) and the combined primary, secondary, and tertiary gross enrollment ratio (with one-third weight). \nA decent standard of living, as measured by gross domestic product (GDP) per capita at purchasing power parity (PPP) in USD. \nEach year, UN member states are listed and ranked according to these measures. Those high on the list often advertise it, as a means of attracting talented immigrants (economically, individual capital) or discouraging emigration.
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India is still considered as a developing country. I think its gonna take a long time before it can be declared as a developed country.
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The education system is efficient and based on the US curriculum. The literacy rate is 95.9%, one of highest in Asia, and about equal
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Through the years, there have been a number of approaches to this issue: the first measurements of economic development relied on GDP per capita, expressed in terms of a numerary currency, such as the American dollar; this method of measurement has been all but abandoned by international financial institutions in favor of GDP per capita adjusted by purchasing power parity (PPP). A more holistic approach has been favored by institutions such as the United Nations Development Program, which annually measures the Human Development Index (HDI) for a wide number of nations; the HDI is composed of three variables:\n\n1. GDP per capita, adjusted by PPP\n2. Life expectancy at birth\n3. Literacy proportion\n\nFor more info on GDP calculations and PPP, look them up in a macroeconomics textbook: Dornbusch, Fisher and Startz or Mankiw are good options.
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race: 99% black or brown\nincome: couldn't find it, but GDP/person is $6200\neducation: I don't know, but the literacy rate is only 77%.
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Illiteracy means: The inability to read, write and calculate using simple (-,+,X,/) when reaching the age 10. Where: All around the world, but especially n poor countriesm and even n rich countries (like USA) but in rular areas (which r usually farther from education). The world most educated country is a european country called Estonia with 0.3% only of people r un-educated. In the US the percentage is between 1-2%.
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hundreds if you try, but normally the average person acquires 7-15 new words per day from age two onward\n\n"Several researchers have estimated comprehension vocabularies of young adults, with totals ranging from 40,000 to 100,000 for high school graduates (Nagy & Anderson, 1984; Nagy & Herman, 1987). The variation appears to be largely determined by the size of the dictionaries sampled, and to some extent by the way in which words are defined as being separate from each other and by the testing methods employed. (See Anglin, 1993, Miller, 1991, and Miller and Wakefield's commentary in Anglin, 1993, for review and critiques). The most common testing methods have been multiple choice tests much like those of TOEFL, but a few other procedures have been employed with comparable results. Here is one example of an estimation method. Moyer and Landauer (Landauer, 1986) sampled 1,000 words from Webster's Third International Dictionary (1964) and presented them to Stanford University undergraduates along with a list of 30 common categories. If a student classified a word correctly and rated it familiar it was counted as known. Landauer then went through the dictionary and guessed how many of the words could have been gotten right by knowing some other morphologically related word, and adjusted the results accordingly. The resulting estimate was around 100,000 words. This is at the high end of published estimates. A lower, frequently cited estimate is around 40,000 by the last year of high school (Nagy & Anderson, 1984). It appears, however, that all existing estimates are somewhat low because as many as 60% of the words found in a daily newspaper do not occur in dictionaries-mostly names, some quite common (Walker & Amsler, 1986)-and most have not adequately counted conventionalized multi-word idioms whose meanings cannot be derived from their components.\n\nBy simple division, knowing 40,000 to 100,000 words by 20 years of age means adding an average of 7-15 new words a day from age two onwards. The rate of acquisition during late elementary and high school years has been estimated at between 3,000 and 5,400 words per year (10-15 per day), with some years in late elementary school showing more rapid gains than the average (Nagy & Herman, 1987; Smith, 1941). In summary, it seems safe to assume that, by the usual measures, the total meaning recognition vocabularies of average fifth to eighth grade students increase by somewhere between ten and fifteen new words per day."
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87,857,473\nhttp://education.yahoo.com/reference/factbook/rp/popula.html
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Not sure of the actual percentages since I don't know what country you are asking about. But check your government statistics/census pages. I have listed a couple US ones below.\n\nhttp://www.census.gov/\nhttp://www.fedstats.gov/
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I don't know of an actual quantitative or qualitative scale to measure a country's development.   However there is a litmus test that economists generally use to measure how developed a country is.  You see how industrialized it is.  What kind of exporting or importing it does, how much foreign dependency it has.
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Yes, but... what kind of question is that? It depends on your definition of "subsistence level". But OK, one of the most commonly quoted  indicators, based on World Bank statistics, is the number of people who survive on less than two dollars a day. About half of the world's population have to do that - so 50% or your point C.
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Doing for the entire population makes it hard to compare countries. Most birth and death rates are in the single digits per thousand, so you would have to keep saying "zero point seven percent" (7 syllables) instead of "seven per thousand" (5 syllables).
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There are no clear-cut numbers on what is a developed and what is an undeveloped/underdeveloped or developing country. Countries are supposed to be able to determine for themselves which they are under a UN rule. The factors that people generally look at to determine whether a country is developed are per capita income, the level of infrastructure development, and the country's rating on the Human Development Index (a score based on life expectancy, adult literacy rate, gross enrollment rate in education, and GDP).
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India - it is the world's largest democracy and it has a huge educated population that is willing to work at levels lower than most individuals in the West.
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The literacy rate in the US is 97% although there is some debate that suggests this rate may be lower.  However, if this rate is true it means that America is ranked 55th in the world for adult literacy.
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Dont know statistic, but definelty should be very less...that is the irony, isnt it...a country which produces the maximum programmers have very less computers while they have primary education.