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 projected bar chart gives information about the proportion of world

illiteracy

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divided by region, by gender

last

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year.

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, it is noticeable that in 6 categories the proportion of

females

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is always higher than that of

male

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,

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South

Asia

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experienced the highest

illiteracy

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rates, the opposite was true for developed countries with only a tiny fraction of

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the percentage

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of

illiteracy

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by men and women. In detail, in terms of Latin American/Caribbean, 10% of males and 12% of

females

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were illiterate, which

10

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times as much as in the figure for developed countries was only 1% for

male

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males

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and 2% for

female

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females

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. Meanwhile, under 10% of males are illiterate and 20%

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females

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is the figure for East

Asia

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/Oceania.

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, the

illiteracy

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rates in men in Sub-Saharan Africa, Arab States and South

Asia

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was

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over 30%, under 30%,

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35% respectively.

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that, the highest percentage of illiterate

females

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was observed in South

Asia

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at 55%, followed by Arab States at 51% and Sub-Saharan Africa at 48%.