The bar chart shows the rate of illiteracy in different parts of the world, broken down into men and women last year. Overall, we can see that there is big difference in different parts of the world but that woman are much less likely to be able to be literate.
We can see that people living in Sub Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Arab States are much more likely to be illiterate. Approximately half women in these countries is unable to read or write with the figure as high as 56% in South Asia. However, the figure for men is lower, at around 30%. However, this is still high.
In contrast,in other countries the vast majority of people read and write. In developed countries nearly everybody is literate. However, there are slight more women with illiteracy than men. In East Asia and Oceania it is clear that there is big difference between men and women. Less than ten percent of men are illiterate but for women the figure is more than double at 20%.