You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The bar chart below shows estimated world illiteracy rates by region and by gender for the last year. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. You should write at least 150 words.

The presented chart illustrates an estimation of the percentage of illiteracy among males and females in Latin America, East

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, Sub-Saharan Africa, South

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and various developed countries, for the

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year. Provided that the developed countries have the lowest percentage of the uneducated population, females still slightly outnumber males for the same.

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, South

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has the highest proportion of illiterate people among all.

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the female illiteracy rate in both Latin American and East Asian regions is still equal to or below 20%, the developed nations have almost two 2 in 100 uneducated women.

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, a lot of differences can be seen in other areas, especially in Arab states and South

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where more than half of the women are uneducated.

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, in East

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and Latin America, almost one in ten men

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not received an education,

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the illiteracy rate was almost negligible for those in developed countries.

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, males still seem to get more education than females in the rest of the regions, around 30% of them are still illiterate in Sub-Saharan Africa and South

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.