The chart below shows estimated world literacy rate by region and by gender for the year 2000.

The bar graphs illustrate the

illiteracy

rate in 6 different

regions

and genders in 2000.

Overall

, it is obvious from the graphs that

females

in all 6

regions

are less literate than males.

Moreover

, people with the highest rate of

illiteracy

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South Asia,

while

residents of developed countries have the least level of

illiteracy

. The interesting point is that in all

regions

women’s education level is lower than men's.

Thus

, the

illiteracy

rate of women in Sub-Saharan Africa, Arab states, and South Africa ranged from 48% to 55%,

while

uneducated men made up from 29% to 34%.

In addition

, the uneducated proportion of

females

in East Asia/Oceania made up 20% and it was 10 times higher than illiterate

females

in developed countries.

Also

, the

illiteracy

level of males and

females

in those

regions

constituted 8% and 1%, respectively. One region which had almost similar

illiteracy

proportion of both males and

females

was Latin America, which made up 10% and 12%, respectively.