Noting with deep concern that 771 million adults over the age of 15 lack basic literacy skills worldwide and about 100 million children of primary school age are still not enrolled in primary schools, that the issue of illiteracy may not be sufficiently high on national agendas to generate the kind of political and economic support required to address global illiteracy challenges and that the world is unlikely to meet those challenges if the present trends continue,
深为关切地注意到全世界有7.71亿15岁以上的成年人缺乏基本的识字技能，仍有约1亿小学适龄儿童没有入学，扫盲问题在各国议事日程上可能尚未获得充分重视，未能产生应付全球文盲问题的挑战所需的政治和经济支持；如果目前的趋势持续下去，世界势必无法应付这些挑战，