The given chart depits the proportion of literacy assessed by region and gender between 2000 ad 2004. Overall, in every region include the world male have better literacy rate then female. Execpt for world, Europe has most literacy rate in 5 regions about few percent below than 100%.
In detail, Europe, America and Ocenia, they reached remarkable higher literacy rates, exceeding 90 percent for both genders. In case of Europe, the figure for male and female are in similar percentage at 99.2% and 98.5%. Between the America and Europe, their figures are not in much differences lower than a one percent.
In contrast Africa, figure for Africa was lowest with only 62.5% of people are literate. Also the percentage gap between male and female was large about around 18%. Asia stood above average with 79.3%, but the difference in percentage of genders are quite big. The global showed 82.2%, showing male outperforming female by 10%
