The bar chart below shows estimated world illiteracy rates by region and by gender for the last year.

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The graphic shows global rates of illiteracy for

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year broken down by both gender and area. It is evident that there are great discrepancies in literacy rates

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both geographic location and sex. What is most striking when looking at the data is the fact that the burden of illiteracy is disproportionately borne by

women

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, wherever they hail from. In almost every region on the planet, the number of

women

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who cannot read is significantly higher than the number of illiterate

men

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; in East Asia and Oceania,

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in the developed countries, it is actually double. Only in Latin America and the Caribbean is there little disparity between the genders in literacy rates. The geographical distribution of education is

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plain in

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chart.

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everywhere are less likely to be unable to read and write than

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, in some parts of the world, extremely significant segments of the whole population are illiterate.

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is most marked in South Asia, the Arab states and Sub-Saharan Africa where approximately half of all

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do not possess literacy skills, a lack they share with a third of all

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. In East Asia, a fifth of

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and 10% of

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are uneducated in reading and writing.

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is in stark contrast with developed countries, where the proportion of illiterates is truly marginal, even though the absolute number of

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double that of

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, we can see that there are great differences in educational provision across the globe and that (leaving aside Latin America and the Caribbean) the lion’s share of illiteracy is given to

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The bar chart below shows estimated world illiteracy rates by region and by gender for the last year.

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