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.

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worldwide for

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year and is divided by continent and sexual identity.

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, women had a higher functional

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rate compared to the gentleman in every region. Developed countries were the areas that had the least figure of illiterate population.

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, South Asians were the highest region

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ability. The developed countries and Latin American nations had the minimum number of

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number of just over 10 % for males and approximately 15% for women. A significant difference in the number of inability to read happened between East Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. The percentage was increased by triple for gentlemen and just over double for females. There were similarities between Sub-Saharan Africa, Arab States, and South Asia in terms of

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. Between these regions mentioned the proportion of

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people was around 30% to 35% for males and for women, it was between approximately 47% to 55% per cent. South Asia was considered the region with the highest

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figure with more than a 30 % difference for males and 50% for females compared with the developed countries