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 given bar chart depicts the

rates

of the world's illiteracy estimation that were categorized by region and gender in the past year.

Overall

, the trend showed that the competency of literation among females and males in South

Asia

had the highest

rates

.

According to

the chart, it can be seen that women from South

Asia

reached more than half of illiteracy

rates

around 55%, not too far from Arab states which are slightly above 50%. Meanwhile,

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compared to the females from developed countries who accounted for only 5%, Latin American and East

Asia

more than doubled, about 12% and 20% respectively. Interestingly, the

rates

of illiteracy among the males from all countries contributed less than the females. The percentages are no more than 40% for all nations, and approximately 30% in three regions (Sub-Saharan Africa, Arab States, and South

Asia

while

the rest regions were only around 10% (developed countries,

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, and Oceania).