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. Estimated world illiteracy rates, by region and by gender, last year
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The bar chart illustrates, the
percentage
of world illiteracy in 6 regions(developed countries
-Latin Americans/Caribbean - East Asia
/Oceania - Sub-Saharan Africa - Arab States and South Asia
), divided by gender( male-female) in the last
year.
Overall
, South Asia
had the highest percentage
of illiteracy in the world, while
developed countries
had less. Furthermore
, women had the highest rates in the world.
In terms of women, we can separate the figure into two groups, lowest and highest rates. The highest rates contain three countries
(South Asia
- Arab States and Sub-Saharan Africa) that percentage
was around (57% - 52% and 48% respectively). While
the lowest countries
were (developed countries
- Latin Caribbean and East Asia
/ Oceania) that percentage
was around (2% - 12% and 20% respectively).
On the other hand
, the illiteracy percentage
of men fluctuated between 1% and 35%. And like women, the highest rate was around (35% for South Asia
- 31% for Sub-Saharan Africa and 28% for Arab States). Moreover
, the lowest rate was around at
(1% for developed Change preposition
apply
countries
- 8% for East Asia
/ Oceania, and 10% for Latin Caribbean and East Asia
).Submitted by halah.z.alamri on
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