Lowest Literacy Rated Countries 2014

[barbarossa]

The only places you'll see around 30-50% are the large urban centers. The nomadic Somalis who make up the majority of the country are 99% illiterate

I am,

Abdi "Lets not throw ridiculous numbers around" Johnson

When I went to the miiyi, the nomads all had mobile phones, which requires some sort of literacy. Illiteracy is prevalent in elders, but among the generation born after the war, almost everyone is literate.

Those are the nomads just outside of the big city. They are like Kanata residents. They come into the city every weekend to visit famiy. I have a nomad cousin who plays Gameboy while walking his camels. They are not authentic nomads and they are a small minority. They got cell signal because they are just a few miles from the big city. There is no signal 10 miles outside of the urban centers

I am,

Abdi "You need to differentiate" Johnson

Smart phones and Gameboy Console in baadiyaha? Damn, how times have changed! I remember back in the days when I was camel herding lad, right in the heart of Dhudub-Galaadi corridor, we never had any of these cutting edge gadgets.

Talk about being born into the wrong era! I wonder how much more exciting life would have been if my generation of geeljires were afforded the chance to make use of some of the gadgets popular at the time, things such as those ever cool Walkie-Talkies or Atari game systems. Sadly, I and many others qoowsaars from that cursed period would never know what it feels like to be favoured by Fortune and actually own some of these useful modern conveniences.

[1nemansquad]

Bullshit. Like they have any stats for Somalia. I don't take the majority of the stats on Somalia seriously. Only IDPs and Nomads (who are getting less & less every year because of urbanization) suffer the most from illiteracy. Almost Every little kid in the majority ethnically Somali populated cities and villages goes to a school these days. Even in my own tiny village in PL, every little Kid goes to school these days.

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[InoCabdi]

37% for Somalia is quite good

[LobsterUnit]

Reading quran you dont understand doesnt make you literate.Playing games or using phones doesnt make you literate.baasto-it's a pick up the pen-friday.

[MissFiora]

My friend is a social worker, she runs an employment program for disadvantaged youth. She told me a lot of young Somali males struggle to complete the application form required of them to participate in the program. She couldn't decipher one kid's application, she approached him and he admitted to not being able to read and write. Unfortunately literacy is not only an issue back home.