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 as
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 Change preposition
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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.Submitted by Name_1234 on
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