Two-thirds of those people who are illiterate are women and about 200 to 215 million women don't have access to birth control they want so that they can control their own fertility.
And if you didn't… Someone who is financially illiterate doesn't know what to do with their money, where their money is going, where their money currently lives and doesn't even know the options.
A study in Hyderabad, for instance, reproduced the finding of a four-year delay in the onset of dementia among bilinguals- except that the gap was six years for those test cases who were illiterate.
While Herzog has stated he doesn't consciously consider the themes in his films, and despite his insistence that film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates, I think we can nevertheless draw some illuminating connections.