I have this nifty little book beside my desk here called "The Economist Pocket World in Figures"-- 2003 Edition".
It has all sorts of interesting facts, one of which being that Iraq has an adult literacy rate of %55.9. I'm no mathemagician, but that also means that they have an illiteracy rate of %44.1.
Holy Crap.
That ranks them 29th worst in the world.
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