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 given bar graph illustrates the approximation of global rates of illiteracy based on gender and region for the

last

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year.

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, the most interesting feature derived from

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chart is women were more illiterate compared with men in every area. South

Asia

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, Arab States, and Sub-Saharan Africa became the top

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highest proportions of illiterateness,

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other regions were significantly far from those

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areas, with developed countries as the most literate region. In terms of regions with the highest percentage of illiteracy, around 35% of males in South

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were unable to read, and for the women, it was twice the males' figure,

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in Arab States and Sub-Saharan Africa, less than half of women and almost 70% of men were being literate.

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, the rate of illiteracy in East

Asia

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/Oceania, Latin American/Caribbean, and developed countries

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massively beneath, almost by half of the

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previous regions. The figure for East

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/Oceania was only a fifth and a tenth for girls and boys, respectively.

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, the proportion of Latin America/Caribbean was relatively balanced between those two genders, which was around 10% to 12%. As the lowest rate of illiterateness, the figure for developed countries was below 5% for both genders.