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 graph provides statistics about how many

men

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and

women

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could not read and write

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the certain regions for

last

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year. Looking from an

overall

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perspective, it is readily apparent that illiteracy levels among females were higher than among males for all the parts given. The Arab States and South Asia showed the highest numbers,

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developed countries experienced the lowest rates of ignorance. Moving to a more detailed analysis, the trend for highly developed regions of the world witnessed the lowest numbers for

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and

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respectively, around 1% and 2%. The discrepancy between males and females in Latin America and the Caribbean region accounted for about 3%,

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the same figures for East Asia and Oceania made up two times higher for

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at 20% than slightly under 10% for

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. In terms of other parts of the world, the proportions for Sub-Sahara Africa and Arab States represented roughly similar data, roughly 30% for males and approximately 50% for

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. Illiteracy levels in South Asia had the highest numbers for both genders with 55% of

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and

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constituted 35% .