The bar chart below shows estimated world illiteracy rates by region and by gender for the last year. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

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

Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The chart gives information about the proportion of illiterate men and women, differed by their sex and location for the past
year
.
Overall
, it can be seen that in the
last
year
, women were more illiterate than men in general.
In addition
, the highest percentage of people who didn't know how to read and write was in South
Asia
, in comparison with the lowest, which was in the Developed Countries. In general terms, females were more uneducated with the highest proportions in Sub-Saharan Africa, Arab States and South
Asia
, where their rate was between 49% and 55%, contrasting with around 30% of the men in these regions for the same
year
. Around 55% of the females in South
Asia
didn't know how to read and write in the past
year
and
this
referred to only about 35% of the country's male population.
On the other hand
, around 99% of the males in the Developed Countries were literate and 97% of the women there were well-educated. In Latin America and East
Asia
, the proportion of both genders was between 10% and 20%.
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