You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. 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. You should write at least 150 words. Estimated world illiteracy rates, by region and by gender, last year

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bar chart illustrates information about the

number

of

illiteracy

people

separated into two genders in six different areas around the world in the previous year. The units are in per cent.

Overall

, it can be seen that the

number

of

men

who were illiterate was always smaller than the one of

women

. It should

also

be noted how

Sarahan

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South

Africa, Arab States and South

Asia

had the

number

of

illiteracy

people

over half of the total population. Regards to the regions which had a proportion of both genders who were

illiteracy

under 30, Developed countries had only approximately 2% of

men

and 4% of

women

who were

illiteracy

,

whereas

the percentages were exactly 10% for

men

and 12% for

women

in Carribean region.

Additionally

, the

number

of

illiteracy

men

in East

Asia

was smaller about 2% and that of

women

was

bigger

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almost doubled in comparison with the Latin American area. Focusing on the regions the total

illiteracy

people

more

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than 50% of the population,

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number

of

men

who were

illiteracy

was more than 30% in Sarahan Africa and under 30% in the Arab States

while

that in South

Asia

was about 35%.

Moreover

, the proportion of

women

illiteracy

in Sarahan, Arab and South

Asia

were

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48, 52 and 56, leading to the undeniable fact that South

Asia

was the region the rest of the

people

did not know how to read.