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 provided bar chart presents estimated rates of people in the world who are unable to read or write by location and by gender in the previous year.

Overall

, the illiteracy rates of females were higher than

males

in every region. The highest figure was the

rate

of women who lived in South

Asia

. Meanwhile, the lowest

rate

was the

rate

of

males

living in developed countries. As can be seen, the lowest female illiteracy

rate

was in developed countries at 2% followed by Latin American/Caribbean at 11%.

In addition

, females in East

Asia

/Oceania accounted for 20%.

Moreover

, the rates jumped up to 49%, 52% and 55% in Africa, Arab states and South

Asia

respectively.

Furthermore

, the highest

rate

of

males

was in South

Asia

at 32%. The

rate

in African and Arab states was slightly lower at 28% to 31%. The lowest

rate

for

males

was in developed countries which was approximately 1%.