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24 June 2025, The table below shows the estimated literacy rates by region and gender for 2000-2004.

24 June 2025, The table below shows the estimated literacy rates by region and gender for 2000-2004.
The table presents estimated literacy rates across six regions and worldwide from 2000 to 2004, broken down by gender.
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, Europe had the highest total literacy rate,
whereas
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 Africa had the lowest.
On the other hand
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, the
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 of females was lower than that of
males
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 in all regions
as well as
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 globally. Regarding the global average, the
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 of literate people worldwide stood at 82.2%, with
males
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 at 87.2% and females at 77.3%. The figure for Europe literacy made up the majority of literature rate with more than 98% of
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, with the share of
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 99%, which
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% higher than that of women.
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 was followed by
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 and Oceania, both of which had a similar total number and
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percentage
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, at around 93% for the former and 94% for the latter.
By comparison
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, the
percentage
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 of literate men in Asia was higher by around 10% than that of the opposite sex. Africa recorded the lowest in all
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 at 71,6% for men and 53.9% for women, which
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 the
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lowest
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 total literate rate at 62.5%.

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