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 provided table illustrates the evaluated percentages of literacy for men and women in 6 different continents in a span of 5 years, from 2000 to 2004.

Overall, after analyzing the chart, it can observed that the literacy percentages of males were higher than females in all regions. In addition, the Europeans were the most literate people in the world for both males and females between 2000 and 2004.

To begin with, regarding the continents, the number of literate people in Africa was the lowest at 62.5% compared with the Europeans who was the highest percentage at 89.8%. In addition, the literacy rates in both Americas and Ocenia were roughly equal, with 93.6% and 93.4%, respectively.

Moving to the gender, The gap between men and women who were literate, was not huge except the case of Africa, where there was a considerable gap between them, at 71.6% for men and 53.9% for women. Moreover, the literacy rates of men and women were nearly equal, with a slightly gap between them in both Europe and Americas.