On the other hand, reading comprehension evaluations are generally direct at the literal level and the critical and inferential level is left aside. According to the Regional Center for the Promotion of Books in Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLALC), we are the leaders of “those who read the least”, with 65% of people who recognize that they never read a book . Mexico is ahead of us with 73%, but other neighbors achieve better ratios, such as Brazil (50%), Argentina (45%), Colombia (44%), Uruguay (34%) and Chile (20%).
And the evaluations C Level Executive Email Lists of the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) of reading comprehension, which measures students from all over the world, indicate that Peru occupies the last place among the 65 countries that participat in 2012. (MINU, 2013) The study also indicates that the average book consumption per person is less than one per year, one of the lowest in the region. On the other hand, the majority of readers are between 15 and 25 years old, and book buyers are between 25 and 60 years old.
As for access to loan books in libraries or reading rooms, they are not very frequent. access pirat books and photocopies, especially the latter case in university students. In another part of the study it is not that, by far, Peru leads newspaper readership in the region with 71%, follow by the Dominican Republic with 47%. It must be not that the press with the greatest readership in our country is the so-call “chicha press”, a trivial press that generally trivializes information.