Analfabetism under the demographic approach: A case study in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Brazil committed itself to reducing its illiteracy rate by at least 50% by 2015 by agreeing to the Dakar Framework for Action, Education for All: Meeting our Commitments, thus, the present work aims to present the demographic projection of the illiteracy in the state of Rio de Janeiro, in order to analyze compliance with the reduction. In addition, we sought to make a bibliographical review on the theme illiteracy, the focus of studies in a world panorama, through the Scopus base and the evolution of projections in Brazil, through the demographic censuses of 1991, 2000 and 2010, Literacy Indicator And National Plans by Sample of Households made available. In this context, one can conclude the illiteracy rate of Rio de Janeiro when contrasted with the national average of Brazil, which presents values less than half for the years of censuses. It was possible to observe that this rate of the female population is more accentuated than that of the male population, in addition, the rural zone also present values higher than the urban zone. It is also noted that the smaller the size of the municipality, the higher its illiteracy rate. It was also possible to conclude that, over the years, the projection of the illiteracy rate in the state of Rio de Janeiro tends to fall, as this rate can be measured by several methods, be it by age group, declared color, size of municipality, genre and location, the tendency to reduction is observed in all of them.