3. Afghanistan
Literacy rate: 28.1% Male:43.1% Female: 12.6%
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan has triggered a war that has been ravaging the country for almost 35 year. School system has become nonexistent, but in the last decade things have finally started to improve. More than 5,000 schools have been built, with almost 100,000 teacher trained to work in them. There are still major problems to be solved, though. Afghanistan is the country with the biggest gender difference in literacy rate on our list and second only to Yemen in the world.
