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 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 bar chart below illustrates the estimation of males and females who were illiterate in six regions of the world
last
year.
Overall
, there are more
women
who cannot read and write compared to
men
across the six regions presented. The region which had the most illiterate people
last
year was South Asia with around 55% of
women
and more than one-third of
men
.
In addition
, more
women
in Arab States could not read and write compared to
women
in Sub-Saharan Africa,
whereas
there were more
men
in Sub-Saharan Africa who were illiterate compared to
men
in Arab States. The region that had the least illiterate people was Developed Countries with almost zero illiterate
men
and
women
.
Furthermore
, Latin America and East Asia
also
had a minimum number of illiterate people but the total percentage of illiterate
women
and
men
in East Asia was slightly higher than the total percentage of illiterate
women
and
men
in Latin America, which were 28% and 21% respectively.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • Illiteracy rates
  • Region
  • Gender disparity
  • Bar chart
  • Estimated
  • Summarise
  • Main features
  • Comparisons
  • Analyzing
  • Discrepancies
  • Significant
  • Pronounced
  • Speculation
  • Male
  • Female
  • Global perspective
  • Literacy
  • Educational attainment
  • Socio-economic factors
  • Cultural influences
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