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

The bar chart compares assumed world

illiteracy

rates by region and by gender for the

last

year.

Overall

, in all cases, the the

illiteracy

rate among women was higher than

men

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. Developed

countries

had almost ignorable

illiteracy

rate

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.

On the contrary

, about half of the population in South

Asia

, Arab states and Africa were illiterate. The

illiteracy

rate in Latin America / Caribbean and East

Asia

/ Oceania was only 1

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, 10 

percent

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and 14

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respectively considering both

male

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males

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and

female

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females

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. Sub-Saharan Africa, the Arab States and South

Asia

had rates of approximately 40%, 41% and 45%. Illiterate women were higher than

the

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illiterate men in all the given

countries

. In the developed

countries

, the proportion of literacy among men and female was almost similar but the differences increased for

Asia

, Arab states and Africa. Among the given 6

countries

, the South Asian population were far more illiterate than any other country.