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 illustrates gender-based comprehension of literacy by percentages and makes comparisons in six different regions. It is notable that developed countries have a significantly lower rate compared to other developing regions around the world. In every region, female has a higher tendency to be illiterate compared to males.

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is especially prevalent in South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Arab States regions, where the statistic of females can almost double the

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, going over the 45% mark. In East Asia, the percentage of illiterate women is

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the majority, but the number only reaches the 20% mark, where men take up just below 10%. Meanwhile, the differences are not as comparable in Developed Countries and Latin American/Caribbean areas. Both Latin American female and male illiteracy

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are barely over 10%. The figure is extremely low in developed countries, where both genders stay under a 5% point, making illiteracy an irrelevant issue.