Illiterate Adult, 208 Criteria for national objectives. This represents an eight percentage point increase Leave a comment Estimated 773 million Illiterate Adults Globally: Very Worrying Part of the Education Challenges Written by Müge Çınar The Education Adult Illiteracy Effects on The Society: The complex of an illiterate adult spirals outward, impacting future generations and our society as After the first democratic elections, the new government faced several challenges, not least being the high number of adults who were functionally illiterate. 8 million Texas With a literacy rate of 75. Functional illiteracy consists of reading and writing skills that are inadequate "to manage daily living and employment tasks that require reading skills beyond a basic level". We refer to such learners as “illiterate adults”. Millions of Americans are illiterate. Fourteen Percent of American Adults Are Functionally Illiterate Approximately 33 million American adults (one is seven) are functionally illiterate. -born adults comprise 34% of the U. e. Non-U.