FINANCIAL LITERACY OF THE POPULATION AS A COMPONENT OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE COUNTRY

Abstract

The article substantiates the theoretical and scientific-methodical principles of financial literacy; it is established that raising the level of financial literacy is a strategic goal of the state to ensure the development of financial inclusion, because only increasing the availability and level of use of services and strengthening consumer protection without raising financial literacy will not give the desired result; It is investigated that financial literacy - knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to ensure responsible financial behavior and increase financial inclusion Ukrainians; it is established that Ukraine lags behind the leading countries in terms of financial literacy - 11.6 in Ukraine (out of 21 possible points); the regularity of the relationship between the level of financial literacy of the population and the level of its economic development - GDP per capita; in the process of correlation-regression analysis we found a high density of communication (0.7711) between the indicators of the level of financial literacy and GDP per capita. For calculations, we used the built-in functions "correlation" and "regression" of the add-in "Data Analysis" of MS Excel. Namely, using the "correlation" function, we calculated the correlation coefficient. Using the “regression” function, the coefficient of determination, the coefficient of y-section were calculated and the regression equation was constructed, which can be used to calculate the projected value of GDP per capita according to the projected level of financial literacy of the population; The results of regression analysis allow us to conclude that there is a sufficiently close relationship between GDP per capita (performance indicator) and the factor indicator (level of financial literacy), as evidenced by the value of the coefficient of determination - R-square - 0.8843. The coefficient of elasticity shows the percentage change in the average performance (GDP per capita) with a change in the argument x (level of financial literacy) by 1%. The calculated value of the coefficient shows that with an increase in the level of financial literacy by 1%, GDP per capita increases by an average of 4.18%.