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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (22417)3/17/2003 5:58:46 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 25898
 
See their literacy numbers
not stellar

and 50% for women in Saudi Arabia is shocking
that's even lower than I thought it was



To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (22417)3/17/2003 6:02:21 PM
From: epicure  Respond to of 25898
 
Literacy:
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 58%
male: 70.7%
female: 45% (1995 est.)

Pretty bad- I had no idea. I thought they were better than this in Iraq (which still wouldn't be good)

cia.gov