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The table below shows the estimated literacy rates by region and gender for 2000-2004. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

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The chart illustrates the
literacy
rates
 in total and by
gender
 from 2000 to 2004 for six geographical categories: World, Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania.
Overall
, the table shows that 82.2% of the World was literate,
although
 there was almost a ten
percent
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 difference between men and women.
In particular
, 87.2% of males and 77.3% of females were literate in the considered period. Analyzing the single regions, it can be seen that Africa was the one with the lowest total
literacy
 rate, with only 62.5%,
while
 Europe was the highest, with 98.8%. At the same time, it seems that the lowest the total
literacy
 was, the greatest the differences between male and female
rates
 were.
For example
, Africa had the most significant difference
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literacy
 by
gender
, with 71.6% of
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men and only 53.9% of
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women literate.
In addition
, Asia, which was the second lowest region by total
literacy
 with 79.3%, had a difference of 13.4% by
gender
, with 85.9% for males and 72.5% for females.
On the other hand
, the other three regions all had total
rates
 over 90% and under one
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 differences by
gender
. More specifically, Oceania had a total
literacy
 rate of 93.4% and Americas of 93.6%. In conclusion, it can be stated that
literacy
rates
 were very different in
this
 period both by region and by
gender
, with a possible correlation between
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literacy
rates
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gender
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differences
.
Moreover
, even in the regions with the highest
literacy
rates
, women were less literate compared to men.
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