Lowest Literacy Rates

The countries with the lowest literacy rate.

1. Burkina Faso 23.6%
2. Mali 24.0
3. Chad 25.7
4. Niger 28.7
5. Guinea 29.5
6. Benin 34.7
7. Sierra Leone 34.8
8. Ethiopia 35.9
9. Mozambique 38.7
10. Senegal 39.3

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, 2010. 2. U.S. Census Bureau, International Database.

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