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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illustrates the percentage of

men

and

women

who were not educated in different parts of the world in the previous year.

Overall

,

women

always had a higher illiteracy percentage than

men

, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa, Arab States and South

Asia

, where

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amount of the population

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lacking

of

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the ability to read or write.

According to

the data shown, Sub-Saharan Africa, Arab States and South

Asia

are the top three illiterate regions, with the largest percentage of illiterate population. Approximately 90% of people in South

Asia

were uneducated,

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Sub-Saharan Africa and Arab States were more than 80%.

Moreover

, the illiteracy rates of

women

in these three regions were about

one third

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higher than

men

's.

However

, there were lower illiteracy rates in Latin

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America

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(22%) and East

Asia

(30%),

as well as

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countries (3%).

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, the differences between the rates of different gender were lower in Latin American and developed countries.

In contrast

, the number of uneducated

men

were

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around half of

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women's

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in East

Asia

.