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 table shows estimated literacy rates for men and women in 2000-2004 in five regions: Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania. It also shows average world literacy rates for both genders for the same years.
According to the table, Europe has the highest literacy rates, reaching almost 99%. There is virtually no difference in literacy rates for European men and women.
In Oceania and the Americas, the figures for both men and women are almost the same. In both regions over 93% of the population is literate.
In both Asia and Africa, there are considerable differences in literacy rates between men and women. In Asia, only 72.5% of women are literate, whereas the figure for Asian men is 13% higher. In Africa, the gap is nearly double, with 53.9% of all African women being literate and 71.6% of the African men being able to read and write.
Overall, around 82% of the world population is literate. In Europe, Oceania and the Americas the literacy rates are the highest, with over 90% of the population able to read and write. Asia and Africa have lower literacy rates than the other regions in the graph.
Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 1, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...r 93% of the population is literate. In both Asia and Africa, there are conside...
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Line 7, column 102, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...n literacy rates between men and women. In Asia, only 72.5% of women are literate,...
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Line 7, column 193, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...the figure for Asian men is 13% higher. In Africa, the gap is nearly double, with ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, if, so, whereas
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 7.0 157% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 1.00243902439 0% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 6.8 176% => OK
Relative clauses : 0.0 3.15609756098 0% => OK
Pronoun: 1.0 5.60731707317 18% => OK
Preposition: 26.0 33.7804878049 77% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 3.97073170732 101% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 942.0 965.302439024 98% => OK
No of words: 194.0 196.424390244 99% => OK
Chars per words: 4.85567010309 4.92477711251 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.73207559907 3.73543355544 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.29524454434 2.65546596893 86% => OK
Unique words: 91.0 106.607317073 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.469072164948 0.547539520022 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 308.7 283.868780488 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.45097560976 110% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 1.53170731707 65% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.33902439024 92% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.07073170732 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.482926829268 0% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 3.36585365854 297% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 8.94146341463 134% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 22.4926829268 71% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 27.5358352374 43.030603864 64% => OK
Chars per sentence: 78.5 112.824112599 70% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.1666666667 22.9334400587 70% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.75 5.23603664747 33% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 3.83414634146 130% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 3.0 1.69756097561 177% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 3.70975609756 27% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 1.13902439024 176% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.09268292683 220% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.199328532415 0.215688989381 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0862652287548 0.103423049105 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0815412596204 0.0843802449381 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.128882639331 0.15604864568 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.102927473588 0.0819641961636 126% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.5 13.2329268293 72% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 61.2550243902 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.51609756098 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 10.3012195122 92% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.61 11.4140731707 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.69 8.06136585366 95% => OK
difficult_words: 40.0 40.7170731707 98% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 11.4329268293 66% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.9970731707 76% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.0658536585 90% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum four paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 1, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...r 93% of the population is literate. In both Asia and Africa, there are conside...
^^
Line 7, column 102, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...n literacy rates between men and women. In Asia, only 72.5% of women are literate,...
^^
Line 7, column 193, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...the figure for Asian men is 13% higher. In Africa, the gap is nearly double, with ...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, if, so, whereas
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 7.0 157% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 1.00243902439 0% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 6.8 176% => OK
Relative clauses : 0.0 3.15609756098 0% => OK
Pronoun: 1.0 5.60731707317 18% => OK
Preposition: 26.0 33.7804878049 77% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 3.97073170732 101% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 942.0 965.302439024 98% => OK
No of words: 194.0 196.424390244 99% => OK
Chars per words: 4.85567010309 4.92477711251 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.73207559907 3.73543355544 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.29524454434 2.65546596893 86% => OK
Unique words: 91.0 106.607317073 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.469072164948 0.547539520022 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 308.7 283.868780488 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.45097560976 110% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 1.53170731707 65% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.33902439024 92% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.07073170732 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.482926829268 0% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 3.36585365854 297% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 8.94146341463 134% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 22.4926829268 71% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 27.5358352374 43.030603864 64% => OK
Chars per sentence: 78.5 112.824112599 70% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.1666666667 22.9334400587 70% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.75 5.23603664747 33% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 3.83414634146 130% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 3.0 1.69756097561 177% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 3.70975609756 27% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 1.13902439024 176% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.09268292683 220% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.199328532415 0.215688989381 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0862652287548 0.103423049105 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0815412596204 0.0843802449381 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.128882639331 0.15604864568 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.102927473588 0.0819641961636 126% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.5 13.2329268293 72% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 61.2550243902 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.51609756098 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 10.3012195122 92% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.61 11.4140731707 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.69 8.06136585366 95% => OK
difficult_words: 40.0 40.7170731707 98% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 11.4329268293 66% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.9970731707 76% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.0658536585 90% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum four paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.