Iraq, before 1991, had an educational system that was considered one of the best in the region. Likewise, the percentage of those who could read and write in the 1970s and 1980s was high.
Iraq at that time almost eliminated illiteracy
through the establishment of literacy campaigns.
At the present time, the (UNICEF) announced in May 2019, through a statement, that 50% of schools “need rehabilitation and restoration.”
they emphasized Iraq’s need for more than 20 thousand new schools.

In addition to the spread of 2000 clay schools in southern Iraq.
Which lacks the most basic elements of education, suffers from a lack of all services, and is far from the areas where students live.

Most of the students are forced to cross dirt and mud roads every day until they reach there schools.
In addition to the “caravan schools” that began operating in 2014 for the displaced people, but the experience was later generalized to include several areas in Baghdad to fill the shortage in the number of schools.