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

The bar chart below shows estimated world illiteracy rates by region and by gender for the last year.
The bar chart gives information about the number of
men
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 and
women
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 who were illiterate in 6 various
countries
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last
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 year. Units are measured in percentages.
Overall
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, what stands out from the graph is that the percentages of uneducated females were higher than males in all given
countries
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last
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 year.
Furthermore
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, in developed
countries
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, residents were more educated as opposed to other
countries
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. Looking into detail, regarding the small differences between genders, in developed
countries
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 less than 5% of both
men
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 and
women
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 were illiterate.
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, in Latin America, the illiteracy rates for
men
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 and
women
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 were almost the same at around 12%,
while
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 in East Asia, the proportion for females was more than twice as much
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higher than that for males at 20% and 8%, respectively. In terms of big differences between rates, in Sub-Saharan Africa, the proportion of uneducated
women
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 was just under 50%,
whereas
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 the figure for
men
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 was just above 30%. Meanwhile, in the remaining areas, illiteracy figures for females were around 55% for each,
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 the figures for
men
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 were just below 30% in Arab States and nearly 35% in South Asia.

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Linking words: Don't use the same linking words: "last, while".
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Vocabulary: Replace the words men, women, countries with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: The word "figure" was used 3 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "gives" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "differences" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "percentages" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "proportion" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "around" was used 2 times.
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