Weekly Viz 2019-11-11

Youth and Adult Literacy Rates

About Makeover Monday

MakeoverMonday is a social data project: “Each week we post a link to a chart, and its data, and then you rework the chart. Maybe you retell the story more effectively, or find a new story in the data. We’re curious to see the different approaches you all take. Whether it’s a simple bar chart or an elaborate infographic, we encourage everyone of all skills to partake. Together we can have broader conversations about and with data.”

Starting from Jan 08, 2018, I decided to put aside one hour on Monday weekly to create some visualization and find some insights from the data.

The datasets are published each week at: MakeoverMonday Datasets.

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This week’s data is around the literacy level around the world by age and gender from 2010 to 2018. Education is always important for personal growth, health, economy, etc. The gap between literacy rate is also a prove of gender equality of the country/region.

My Visualization

For my viz, I picked the angle of comparing literacy rate between the two genders and see how it changes among generations and regions.

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Please notice that all the visualizations are designed for desktop view, so it is recommended to view them on a desktop device.

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Insights

• Across all the regions, we are seeing smaller literacy rate gap between genders in the younger generations, which is a good sign for gender equality;
• Asia (especially Central and Southern Asia) and Africa do worse in both general literacy level and equal eduation between genders.

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