Lowest Literacy Rates

 The countries with the lowest literacy rate, defined as the ability to read and write at a specified age.

1.	Burkina Faso	21.8%
2.	Chad	25.7
3.	Afghanistan	28.1
4.	Niger	28.7
5.	Guinea	29.5
6.	Benin	34.7
7.	Sierra Leone	35.1
8.	Somalia	37.8
9.	Senegal	39.3
10.	Gambia	40.1

NOTE: Country rankings of the type presented above cannot pretend to be definitive; instead they aspire only to provide the reader with an approximation of the high and low ends on a particular scale. Country data vary enormously depending on the sources, and the absence of reliable data on some countries requires their omission, which further skews the results. Only countries for which statistics were available in sources 1 and 2 figure in these lists. Sources: 1. The World Factbook, 2013. 2. U.S. Census Bureau, International Database.

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