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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concerning the rate of illiteracy between the genders in six different regions of the world.

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, it is possible to see that

female

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females

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are more likely to suffer

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lack

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a lack

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of education than men in different countries, even though when

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difference is slight in developed countries and in Latin American/Caribbean ones. In South Asia, almost

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of women are illiterate when compared with the opposite gender. The same trend is followed by Sub-saharan Africa with almost 50% of

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females

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who cannot write or read. In Arab States,

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,

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illiteracy figures among girls are higher, almost two times more illiterate than boys. With the same disparity, East Asian/Oceanian women presented 20% of non-education, which is more than

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double

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men. Latin American/Caribbean

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populations

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shown

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a small difference in their rates between the sexes, as same as developed countries. Even

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the prior had shown around 10% of illiteracy and the letter less than 3%.