The bar chart below shows estimated world illiteracy rates by region and by gender for the last year.

The given bar chart illustrates the number of illiteracy by gender and region

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the end of

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.

Overall

, it can be seen that the percentage of

females

is higher than

males

in all regions of the world.

In addition

, both genders in Latin American/Caribean and Developed countries nearly saw equal proportions of illiteracy. Looking at a group of regions which witnessed the higher rates of people who can not read or write a language, in South Asia, there are around 55%

females

and nearly 35%

males

.

Similarly

, more than 50% of women,

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30% of men in Arab States lack

this

ability.

Moreover

, Sub-Saharan Africa experiences about 48%

females

and over 30% Moving onto a lower group, East Asia/Oceania is similar to Developed countries with the proportion of

females

close to

males

. With the lowest percentage of illiteracy, Developed countries have only 1%

males

and 2%

females

,

while

Latin American/ Caribean saw 10% of women and about 12% of men.

Besides

, there is 20% of

males

higher than roughly 8% of

females

.