Here are the stats on it.
Mexico’s % below the poverty line (US)
Mexico Country
2000 27% US 12.7%
2001 27% US 12.7
2002 40 % US 13%
2003 40 % US 12.7
2004 40 % US 12
2005 40 % US 12
2006 40 % US 12%
2007 40 % US 12
2008 13.8 % US 12%
2009 13.8 % US 12%
illiteracy
Education
Mexico
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 86.1%
male: 86.9%
female: 85.3% (2005 Census)
World
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 82%
male: 87%
female: 77%
note: over two-thirds of the world's 785 million illiterate adults are found in only eight countries (Bangladesh, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Pakistan); of all the illiterate adults in the world, two-thirds are women; extremely low literacy rates are concentrated in three regions, the Arab states, South and West Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa, where around one-third of the men and half of all women are illiterate (2005 est.)
In the US, adults with a high level of literacy are at 19%, a low level of literacy are at 49.6% and a moderate level of literacy at 31.4%.
US falls into the 27th slot of 205
Functional illiteracy in the United States is growing at a rate of over 2 million new inductees per year
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