Functional illiteracy

Quality:

Functional illiteracy - reading and writing skills that are inadequate "to manage daily living and employment tasks that require reading skills beyond a basic level.". Article “Functional illiteracy” in Simple English Wikipedia has 21.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 references and 4 sections.

This article has the best quality in Portuguese Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article “Functional illiteracy”, its content was written by 14 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 688 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 8 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 745 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1013 in January 2021
• Global: #6342 in January 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #6018 in October 2021
• Global: #33923 in March 2015

There are 23 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Portuguese (pt) Analfabetismo funcional		45.6687
2	Romanian (ro) Analfabetism funcțional		36.6277
3	Italian (it) Analfabetismo funzionale		34.4995
4	Dutch (nl) Laaggeletterdheid		32.2696
5	French (fr) Illettrisme		30.448
6	Chinese (zh) 功能性文盲		25.8051
7	English (en) Functional illiteracy		24.7769
8	Simple English (simple) Functional illiteracy		21.7489
9	Polish (pl) Analfabetyzm funkcjonalny		19.891
10	Hebrew (he) אנאלפביתיות תפקודית		19.6606

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Functional illiteracy		1 792 251
2	Portuguese (pt) Analfabetismo funcional		1 154 831
3	Italian (it) Analfabetismo funzionale		1 046 989
4	French (fr) Illettrisme		743 449
5	Spanish (es) Analfabetismo funcional		638 069
6	Romanian (ro) Analfabetism funcțional		298 197
7	Polish (pl) Analfabetyzm funkcjonalny		211 546
8	Japanese (ja) 機能的非識字		185 563
9	Russian (ru) Функциональная неграмотность		126 949
10	Dutch (nl) Laaggeletterdheid		93 681

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Functional illiteracy		7 120
2	Polish (pl) Analfabetyzm funkcjonalny		3 971
3	Japanese (ja) 機能的非識字		2 074
4	Italian (it) Analfabetismo funzionale		1 956
5	Romanian (ro) Analfabetism funcțional		1 691
6	Chinese (zh) 功能性文盲		1 036
7	Portuguese (pt) Analfabetismo funcional		881
8	French (fr) Illettrisme		866
9	Simple English (simple) Functional illiteracy		695
10	Spanish (es) Analfabetismo funcional		511

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Functional illiteracy		156
2	French (fr) Illettrisme		118
3	Italian (it) Analfabetismo funzionale		96
4	Portuguese (pt) Analfabetismo funcional		55
5	Dutch (nl) Laaggeletterdheid		35
6	Spanish (es) Analfabetismo funcional		32
7	Polish (pl) Analfabetyzm funkcjonalny		29
8	Japanese (ja) 機能的非識字		27
9	Russian (ru) Функциональная неграмотность		17
10	Chinese (zh) 功能性文盲		17

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) Illettrisme		2
2	English (en) Functional illiteracy		1
3	Arabic (ar) أمية وظيفية		0
4	Bulgarian (bg) Функционална неграмотност		0
5	Catalan (ca) Analfabetisme funcional		0
6	Spanish (es) Analfabetismo funcional		0
7	Basque (eu) Analfabetismo funtzional		0
8	Persian (fa) سوادآموزی تابعی		0
9	Finnish (fi) Funktionaalinen lukutaidottomuus		0
10	Galician (gl) Analfabetismo funcional		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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