10. Côte d’Ivoire
Literacy rate: 43.10%
Another African country which has been ravaged by civil wars makes the list of 16 most illiterate countries in the world. The civil war has still not ended and not only has it resulted in the destruction of many schools, but many parents stopped sending their children to school because of the danger that they would be killed. Imagine not sending your children to school because it might result in their deaths! Most of us can’t even imagine such a situation and it is not surprising that the nation’s literacy rate has suffered, with 36 percent of adults not having attained any education at all.
