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.

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bar chart illustrates the ability of literacy in different regions and both genders in the

last

year

Overall

, it can be seen that all regions had more illiterate

females

than

males

.

Additionally

,

while

the

illiteracy

rates

in developed

countries

were the

least

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, South Asia had the most illiterate people all over the world. Looking to the

countries

where the

illiteracy

was the least. In terms of developed

countries

, both

males

and

females

comprised around 2% of

illiteracy

rates

. In the meantime, the

illiteracy

rate was more than 20% for each gender in the Caribbean.

Likewise

, even though

females

accounted for exactly 20% of

illiteracy

in Oceania, illiterate

males

made up approximately 8%. With regards to the remaining

countries

in which the

illiteracy

was the most. As for Arab States

as well as

South Asia, both of them comprised more than half of

illiteracy

rates

in

females

. Meanwhile, only a third of them who could not read and write were male. Moving on to Africa, the

illiteracy

rates

in

females

was

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more terrible than

males

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in males

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with about 48% and more than 30%, respectively.