Top 10 Countries with Highest illiteracy Rate in the World: Illiteracy means lack of education, In the present era Education is much important in all the nations for each and every person because it teaches us how to live, how to treat others and how to spent one’s life. for the survival and development of a nation is totally depended on the literacy rate of that particular country. if a country has largest number illiterate people, no one can save that country from destructive downfall . There are numerous drawbacks of it. At present the Foremost important thing is to equip us with the modern trends of education so that we may not become like the ruined nations due to the lack of education. But in-spite off all this, still there are several nations present with the highest illiteracy rate out of which top ten countries are ranked below: List of Top 10 Countries With Highest illiteracy rate RankCountryAdult Illiteracy rate 1.Niger84.3% 2.Burkina Faso77.0% 3.Afghanistan63.7% 4.Sierra Leone63.7% 5.The Gambia63.5% 6.Guinea-Bissau63.2% 7.Senegal62.7% 8.Benin62.5% 9.Ethiopia61.3% 10.Mauritania60.1% A recent research showed that there is an increasing rate of illiteracy rate in all over the world which is turning into a dangerous situation and needs attention to resolve this raising issue.In accordance to a study conducted by World Statistics institute (WSI), more than 27% people are illiterate globally. The main causes of this problem are social , motivational and family problems.Nigeris the country having highest percentage of illiterate people. 84.3% people are not able to read,write or understand. All the in information is verified from different authentic sources and collected from CIA World Factbook (Central Intelligence Agency), 2011.