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

The bar diagram indicates the approximate percentages of illiterate males and females in different regions

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year.

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the illiteracy rate of females was greater than that of males all over the world in the past time.

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, the developed nations and South

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show the lowest and the highest rates, respectively, in

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regard. First of all, people from developed nations were in the best position among all other regions (1% male and 2% female were illiterate).

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, Latin America/the Caribbean and East

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present increased rates of illiteracy (10% and 12% for males and females, respectively, in Latin America/Caribbean and 8% and 20% for the same for East

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).

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, less than 66% of the people in Sub-Saharan Africa, Arab States and South

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were literate in the previous year. Specifically, in Sub-Saharan Africa, 31% of male persons were illiterate, and almost half the proportion (48%) of female persons share the same characteristic.

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, the figures for the Arab States are 29% and 52%.

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, most of the female population (56%) but approximately one-third of the male population (34%) in South

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could not read and write in that period.

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, the illiteracy of women was much higher than that of men (except in Latin America/Caribbean) anywhere around the globe in the preceding year.