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

and

women

who were illiterate in 6 various

countries

last

year. Units are measured in percentages.

Overall

, what stands out from the graph is that the percentages of uneducated females were higher than males in all given

countries

last

year.

Furthermore

, in developed

countries

, residents were more educated as opposed to other

countries

. Looking into detail, regarding the small differences between genders, in developed

countries

less than 5% of both

men

and

women

were illiterate.

Likewise

, in Latin America, the illiteracy rates for

men

and

women

were almost the same at around 12%,

while

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

was just under 50%,

whereas

the figure for

men

was just above 30%. Meanwhile, in the remaining areas, illiteracy figures for females were around 55% for each,

while

the figures for

men

were just below 30% in Arab States and nearly 35% in South Asia.