The bar chart below shows estimated world illiteracy rates by region and by gender for the last year.

The bar chart demonstrates the percentages of

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and

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who are illiterate in six regions of the world a year ago. Looking at the chart it is immediately obvious that the proportion of illiterate people in advanced countries was lowest, but the opposite was true for the rates of sub-Saharan Africa, arab states, and South Asia.

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, there were more illiterate

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than

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in all regions.

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year, Males and females were unable to read or write accounting for 1% and 2% in developed countries.

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that, the percentage of citizens illiterate in Latin America and the Latin Caribbean was higher with 10%

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and 13%

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. In East Asia and East Oceania, the percentage of illiterate females nearly doubled the quality of illiterate males, at 20% and just under 10% respectively. The proportions of people who were unable to read and write in sub-Saharan Africa and Arab states were roughly identical, accounting for approximately 30% of

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and 50% of

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.

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, the number of illiterate people in South Africa was highest for both sexes, 35% females and just over 55% males.