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 the number of estimated illiteracy people in six regions from the

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year, divided by gender. The rates were measured in percentages.

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, countries with the highest illiteracy rates were Sub-Saharan Africa, Arab States and South

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, in all regions, there were more

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who could not read or write rather than

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.

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year, South

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was the most illiterate area, and the number of illiterate

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was almost twofold

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's number (about 56% and 32%, respectively).

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, it was followed by Arab States, with about 53% of

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and around 29% of

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. In Africa, illiterate females were almost 50% of the

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population and approximately 32% of

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were illiterate.

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, developed countries, Latin American/Caribbean, and East

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/Oceania showed big differences, in which almost all of the population was literate. In developed countries, the level of illiteracy was close to zero.

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were no significant dissimilarities in

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's and

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's illiterate rates in Latin America, with only around 10% of the populace. Meanwhile, illiterate

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in East

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/Oceania over-doubled the

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's percentage (around 20% and 8%, respectively).