11.   Symbols, such as a lamp or a bicycle, are used to help illiterate people vote.

12.   The country is home to the largest number of illiterate people in the world.

13.   The radicals have strong influence in remote areas of Bangladesh where many illiterate people listen to them, and the government often tries to appease the fundamentalists.

14.   As a result women account for two-thirds of the billion illiterate people in the world.