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

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year

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, it can be seen that all regions had more illiterate

females

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than

males

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.

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,

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the

illiteracy

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rates

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in developed

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were the

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

countries

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where the

illiteracy

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was the least. In terms of developed

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, both

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and

females

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comprised around 2% of

illiteracy

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rates

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. In the meantime, the

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

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, even though

females

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accounted for exactly 20% of

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in Oceania, illiterate

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made up approximately 8%. With regards to the remaining

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in which the

illiteracy

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was the most. As for Arab States

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South Asia, both of them comprised more than half of

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rates

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in

females

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

illiteracy

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rates

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in

females

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more terrible than

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