Jordan on Tuesday celebrated International Literacy Day (ILD), which annually falls on September 8. On the occasion, Education Minister Tayseer Nuaimi said that illiteracy rate in Jordan went down from 88 per cent in 1952 to 5.1 per cent in 2019, noting that illiteracy rate among males totalled 3 per cent when compared with 7.3 per cent among females, citing figures from the Department of Statistics. Noting that the ministry ...