Gender

This page looks at how gender affects education in different areas of the world.

Gender Disparity vs Literacy Rates by Region

Description of Graph and Insights

This graph shows a choropleth of gender disparity of literacy rates for different countries around the world for the year 2022. The scale of the colors shows blue as the least difference between the literacy rates of both genders and it goes up in color so that yellow shows the most difference between the literacy rates of both genders. Although there is some missing data, the general trend in the choropleth shows that countries that are close together have similar gender disparity levels. Additionally, since the difference in literacy rates was found by subtracting the literacy rate of the females from the males, the disparity levels show that in general, the males have higher literacy rates.

Gender vs Attendance Rates

Upper Secondary

Lower Secondary

Primary Level

Description of Graphs and Insights

These graphs show a scatter plot of the attendance rates of females and males in each country, and the points are color-coded according to the region* of each country. On the top of the graph, there are box plots of the distribution of data for each of the regions. The graph shows that there doesn’t seem to be a correlation between the region* and the attendance rates of females and males. Additionally, the graph shows, that in general, both males and females have the same attendance rates regardless of their age, country, or region*. Moreover, the regions with the highest attendance rates are SSA and SA.

Key

*Region:

EAP - East Asia and the Pacific

ECA - Europe and Central Asia

EECA - Eastern Europe and Central Asia

ESA - Eastern and Southern Africa

LAC - Latin America and the Caribbean

MENA - Middle East and North Africa

NA - North America

SA - South Asia

SSA - Sub-Saharan Africa

WCA - West and Central Africa