Before Kabul fell: 'Only 37% of teenage girls can read and write'

[speak easy]

As the Taliban Resurges in Afghanistan, Girls Are Already Losing Schools

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According to World Bank data, the number of Afghan girls attending first grade peaked in 2011 — the second year of former President Barack Obama’s troop surge — at 65%. While statistics on the number of Afghan children in school are difficult to obtain and often contested, all indicators show girls’ education is in decline. By 2015, female first graders had fallen to 57%, the most recent data available. Current literacy rates reflect the disparity between the genders: only 37% of teenage girls can read and write, compared to 66% of adolescent boys, according to Human Rights Watch. Today, UNICEF says of the 3.7 million Afghan children out of school, 60% of them are girls.

https://fullerproject.org/story/as-the-taliban-resurges-in-afghanistan-girls-are-already-losing-schools/

[dalton99a]

1. The U.S. should have taught Afghans to read and write during the 20-year occupation

Would have been a nice lasting legacy


(The United States is not listed, but the U.S. literacy rate is about 99%.)

[Takket]

8. wow north korea is 100%? lol Amusing whoever made this chart believed whoever told them that

[tulipsandroses]

2. Thats why I posted that "liberating women and girls"

Was just another lie to keep the war going.

[totodeinhere]

3. Yes it's a real shame that their literacy rate is so low.

But I don't think there is much we in this country can do about it.

[TreasonousBastard]

4. The way I heard it, that's a higher percentage than the Afghan army...

Or the overall population.

And it ain't Taliban's fault, although they didn't help. Literacy is just not a big deal over there.

[Ron Obvious]

5. From personal experience, I'm sceptical that the US rate is 99% or anywhere near it.

But that's another matter.

[JI7]

6. Higher than I would have guessed