 Guyana has a reading literacy rate at 92% of the population over age 15.Despite this high level of reading literacy, significant portions of the Guyanese population
have functional literacy difficulties resulting in a lack of employability and other socio-economic disadvantages; this has caused government and charitable agencies to push education as a tool in poverty reduction.Guyana is one of the highest ranked developing countries in the Education Index of the United Nations Human Development Report.