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The bar chart below illustrates the average number of illiterate male and female in specific regions
the previous year. According to the chart, women accounted for the majority of the illiteracy rate,
especially in Saharan Africa, Arab States and South Asia. However, there was a lower rate of men
who were not able to read or write, compared to women.
In developed nations, the literacy figure was higher than the illiteracy one, ranked the first literacy
rate in six surveyed regions. Located in American and Caribbean, the statistics made up more than
10 percent in both genders. However, it can be seen that the number of people who was unable to
read and write in East Asia was doubled in female.
In some developing region like Sub-Saharan Africa, there was a significant number of illiterate
citizens, constituting over 30 percent in men and nearly 50 percent in women. The figure for
illiterate female in Arab States was approximately two times higher than that in male. Reaching the
highest percentage of women who could not read and write was from South Asia, about 70 percent
or thereabouts. Similarly, men in this region also comprises somewhere around one-half percent.
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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 a big difference in different parts of the world but
that women 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%.
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The bar chart shows global rates of illiteracy broken down by gender and also area for last year. It
is clear that some areas have a much higher proportion of people who are unable to read or write.
It is interesting to note that approximately half of women in South Asia, Arab States and Sub
Saharan Africa cannot read or write with the majority of women in south Asia and the Arab states
are illiterate. This is compared with roughly a third of men.
In the rest of the world rates of illiteracy are much lower with nearly everybody living in developed
countries being able to read and write, falling to approximately 90% in Latin American and
Caribbean countries. However, there are more illiterate women than men, especially in East
Asia/Oceania.
Overall, although there are great disparations in literacy across the globe, women are much less
likely to be able to read or write.
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The bar chart shows the percentages of men and women with illiteracy in different parts of the
world last year. Overall, we can see that women are higher levels of illiteracy than men.
Develop countries have the lowest levels of illiteracy on the chart. Only one percent of men and
two percent of women are illiteracy. However, in Latin American and Caribbean countries the
percent is higher with ten percent of men and little more women. Moreover, In East Asia and
Oceania less men are illiterate than in Latin America and Caribbean countries but the figure for
women is much more higher at 20%. In Sub Saharan Africa rates are more than twice in East Asia
and Oceania. More than thirty percent of men and a little lesser than fifty percent of women. On the
other hand in Arab states this gap is even more with less than thirty percentage of men and more
than fifty percent of women can’t read or write. South Asia has the highest illiteracy rates on the
chart for both men and women.
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The graphic shows global rates of illiteracy for last year broken down by both gender and area. It is
evident that there are great discrepancies in literacy rates according to both geographic location and
sex.
What is most striking when looking at the data is the fact that the burden of illiteracy is
disproportionately borne by women, wherever they hail from. In almost every region on the planet,
the number of women who cannot read is significantly higher than the number of illiterate men; in
East Asia and Oceania, as well as in the developed countries, it is actually double. Only in Latin
America and the Caribbean is there little disparity between the genders in literacy rates.
The geographical distribution of education is also plain in this chart. Men everywhere are less
likely to be unable to read and write than women: however, in some parts of the world, extremely
significant segments of the whole population are illiterate. This is most marked in South Asia, the
Arab states and Sub-Saharan Africa where approximately half of all women do not possess literacy
skills, a lack they share with a third of all men. In East Asia, a fifth of women and 10% of men are
uneducated in reading and writing.
This is in stark contrast with developed countries, where the proportion of illiterates is truly
marginal, even though the absolute number of women is nevertheless double that of men.
Overall, we can see that there are great differences in educational provision across the globe and
that (leaving aside Latin America and the Caribbean) the lion’s share of illiteracy is given to
women.