This piece of information is very interesting. I think it is weird how the certain cultures learn differently. I would think that it would be higher now than it was in 1971. It is amazing to see that two thirds of that one billion in the world today are women that are illiterate. I always thought that women were more intelligent than men. I always thought that was a known fact. I always have thought it was amazing to see when people can come up with statistics of the world around us because how can they figure out around what percentage of the way our world is? I think a lot of it for the children aspect, is maybe because a lot of children do not go to school therefore they do not learn as quickly as most children do.