13. Ethiopia
Literacy rate: 49.10%
While you might think a literacy rate below 50 percent is low, it was actually much worse for Ethiopia before 1975, when nine out of every 10 people were illiterate. While a massive educational reform program has seen the literacy rate rise, these achievements have been from the urban sector and the rural areas are still largely illiterate.
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