Wow, thats the one I missed too (the religion one).
17% could find afganistan.
16% could find sweden
21% could find israel
56% could find italy
More people in canada than the US could find mexio. Even people in mexico could find mexico better than the US (and to compare educational systems, 97% of mexicans could find their own country as well as the US, yet only 89% of the US test takers could find USA on the map).
I guess as the last election shows, most people are republican trailor trash......
Survey Results: U.S. Young Adults Are Lagging
Despite the daily bombardment of news from the Middle East, Central Asia, and other world trouble spots, roughly 85 percent of young Americans could not find Afghanistan, Iraq, or Israel on a map, according to a new study.
Americans ages 18 to 24 came in next to last among nine countries in the National Geographic-Roper 2002 Global Geographic Literacy Survey, which quizzed more than 3,000 young adults in Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Sweden, and the United States. Top scorers were young adults in Sweden, Germany, and Italy.
Out of 56 questions that were asked across all countries surveyed, on average young Americans answered 23 questions correctly.
• nearly 30 percent of those surveyed could not find the Pacific Ocean, the world’s largest body of water;
• more than half—56 percent—were unable to locate India, home to 17 percent of people on Earth; and
• only 19 percent could name four countries that officially acknowledge having nuclear weapons.
Check this one out. 30% of the kids couldnt tell you what the western most city on this map is.
