What are the disadvantages of illiteracy?

Answer 1

Illiterate people: are people not able to read or write. In the world of today, a person needs to be literate to a certain level for him to function in the society, and there are a lot of disadvantages of illiteracy

. Crime Rate
2. Low Health
3. Loss of productivity

Crime Rate
it's been observed that crimes committed by illiterate ones are more in number as compared to the literate ones. Because uneducated people have no skill in their hand nor they have education to earn money. So it seems easy to them to commit a crime because it's the easiest way to earn money. So illiteracy gives birth to crime.

Low Health Issues
As illiterate people are unaware of the hygienic factors and personal hygiene matters so they are often caught up by different diseases. Their self carelessness results in low health which leads to the major complications later on. It might be disadvantage in some cases.

Loss of Productivity, Resources and Time
As these illiterate people sometimes does not understand the value of time so they waste their useful time in time wasting activities instead of utilizing somewhere else where this time could yield some results. Also the illiterate people utilize more number of country's resources then literate one. So which cause them burden on Government's shoulder.

"Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you have fed him for a lifetime"

Answer 2

Illiteracy prevents a person from earning good money. It keeps them from being able to travel, understand legal documents, being able to advance in careers and can even affect ability to parent in a responsible way.

Answer 3

Right now the rate of illiteracy is about 25% of the population and this is a problem. The more literate a population is the better they can live, buy, and handle business needed to live in a modern society. There is no disadvantages to literacy because people can think and critically think about important issues in their lives, in political matters, and work. The more people know the better they are in living standards.

Answer 4

Illiteracy can lead to not being able to read a road sign or a medicineprescription which can lead to multiple trips to the hospital.

Answer 5

People who know how to read might use that ability in order to find out things that you don't want them to know.

Answer 6

advantage of being illiterate