Shafaq The parliamentary Committee on Education counted,…

illiteracy rates in Iraq as "catastrophic" compared with the country's wealth and natural resources.

The official spokesman of the Ministry of Planning and Cooperation Abdul-Zahra al-Hindawi has announced that the proportion of non-learners in the country amounted to 6.2% of young people, according to a survey conducted by the ministry covered all the governorates , including the Kurdistan Region areas.

"The figures revealed by the Ministry of Planning recently on the percentage of illiteracy in the country is a major disaster for the Iraqi society." The member of the Committee  Intisar Jubouri said in an interview with Shafaq.

" Iraq's wealth above and below ground and its richness of natural resources does not agree with the illiteracy rate suffered by the poor people." She added.