Task 1. The chart below shows estimated world illiteracy rates by region and by gender for the last year.

The given bar chart compares the proportion of people who are illiterate in the world by area and by sex for the

last

year.

Overall

, South

Asia

, Arab States, and Sub-Saharan Africa had the highest percentage of illiterate people in the

last

year. It is

also

noticeable that the illiteracy rates of females were significantly higher than that of males. The amount of females who were unlettered in South

Asia

is about 55% in South

Asia

,

while

the proportion of

this

gender in the Arab States and Sub-Saharan Africa was slightly lower, over 50% and 48% respectively. The illiterate woman in Latin America and the Caribbean, over 10%, was almost half the figure in East

Asia

and Oceania. Illiteracy rates in other countries which were developing were lowest, only approximately 2%. The quantities of men who are illiterate are considerably less than the number of women. The highest percentage was in South

Asia

and Sub-Saharan Africa 35% and over 30% respectively,

whereas

this

figure in the Arab States, around 10%, was triple that of Latin America and the Caribbean.