The chart below shows estimated world illiteracy rates by region and by gender for the year 2000.

The bar chart reveals information about the rate of world

illiteracy

estimation by gender and region amongst six different nations.

Overall

, the higher proportions of

women

in all categories than computed

men

.

In addition

, South Asia, Arab States and Sub-Saharan Africa had the lowest rates of

illiteracy

for both genders. It is clear from the graph that, the illiterates in the developed countries had the lowest trend amongst all six regions, and it was only around 1 to 3 per cent. Meanwhile,

this

trend in Latin America and Caribbean regions was approximately 10%for both groups. The lack of education in Asia ,followed by the Arab States and Africa for

women

was much less than that of

men

.In ,Africa nearly 49% of

women

did not study in formal school and

this

percentage was 30% for

men

.

Furthermore

, South Asia accounted for the most

illiteracy

rate in 2000 for

women

and

men

it was just above 55% and 33% ,respectively.

Finally

in the Arab ,States the education gap between both genders was

also

high, with almost 29%

men

's

illiteracy

rate in comparison with 53 % of

women

.