Band 5+: 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.

The table shows the calculation literacy rates in percentage in the world by five regions from 2000 to 2004 for male and female.

Overall, the estimated world wide literacy rates was about 82.2% and in Americas, Europe, and Oceania were the highest literacy rates with over 90% of population. In Asia and Africa both have quite a large differences in literacy rates.

The highest region was Europe that has literacy rates with 99.2% in a total for male and 98.5% of female’s literacy rates. It has no a large differences with male, only about less than 1%.

In Oceania and the Americas, the male’s literacy rates was 94.2% and 94.1%. It approximately shows 0,1% in small differences. But both has over 93% of literacy rates.

The other region is Asia and Africa as the least in the percentage. The literacy rates in Asia overall was about 79.3% and it was 85.9% and 72.5% of each genders. Moreover, Africa was the lowest literacy rates among the regions with overall only 62.5% in the world. For male and female rates it also shows small number in percentage about 71.6% and 53.9%.