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.

The bar chart shows global rates of illiteracy broken down by gender and

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area for

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year.

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some areas have a much higher proportion of people who are unable to read or write. It is interesting to note that approximately half of

women

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in South Asia, Arab States and

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Africa cannot read or write

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the majority of

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Asia and the Arab states are illiterate.

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is compared with roughly a third of men. In the rest of the world rates of illiteracy are much lower with nearly everybody living in developed countries being able to read and write, falling to approximately 90% in Latin American and Caribbean countries.

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, there are more illiterate

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than men, especially in East Asia/Oceania.

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,

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there are great

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disparities

in literacy across the globe,

women

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are much less likely to be able to read or write.