The table gives information about the ability of reading and writing in five continents according to genders from 2000 to 2004. There is also an average literacy proportion for males and females in this period.
Overall, the literacy rates of the Americas, Europe, and Oceania were higher than the average. The opposite was true for Africa and Asia.
In detail, compared to other regions, the literacy proportion of Europe ranked first with the total reaching nearly 99%. There was virtually no difference in literacy rate for European men and women. These percentages in the Americas and Oceania were the same, at over 93%. The educational disparity of males in 2 continents was slightly higher than that of females (0.9% in the Americas and 1.5% in Oceania)
Turning into the other regions, 62.5% of Africans and 79.3% of Asians can read and write. Especially, the number between men and women in schooling was significantly different. In Asia, 85.9% of men are literate, while that number of women was only 72.5%. Similarly, in Africa, only 53.9% of women were able to read and write, whereas the proportion of men was 17.7% higher.
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