Illiteracy.
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Illiteracy.—As a related element of interest in the study of the war from a cultural as well as a military angle the illiteracy of some of the contesting and neutral nations bears strongly on the question:
France 14.1%
Belgium 12.7%
Greece 57.2%
Italy 37.0%
Portugal 68.9%
Roumania 60.6%
Russia 69.0%
Serbia 78.9%
United Kingdom 1.0%
Austria-Hungary 18.7%
Germany 0.05%
Denmark 0.0?%
Netherlands 0.08%
Prussia 0.02%
Switzerland 0.03%
Sweden 0.0?%
United States, 7.7% population over 10 years. Of this, the native white population of native parents furnished 3.7% of the illiterates; the native white of foreign or mixed parentage, 1.1%. The negroes are down with 30.4% illiteracy, less than that of Italy or Greece and several other European States engaged in the task of making the world safe for democracy. Even our Indian population (45.3%) shows less illiteracy than Greece, Serbia or Roumania. The illiteracy of our white foreign-born population is recorded at 12.7%.