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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percentages, by gender and by region during

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year.

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, it can be seen that the figures for females are always higher than that for males.

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, the numbers of Sub-Saharan Africa, Arab States and South

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are more considerable than the remaining ones. Looking at three regions Sub-Saharan Africa, Arab States and South

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details, it is apparent that the proportions of illiterate people in these places are much noticeable. With regard to the volume for females, it ranged from under 30% to nearly 35% compared with that for males logged around approximately 50% and 55%. As for South

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, it exhibited the biggest degree of illiterate residents for both women and men with 55% and 35% respectively. Turning to the remaining statistics, where the

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rates were less significant. In regard to developed countries, it showed the

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rates of

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at under 2% for both genders,

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that of East

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and Oceania was higher at around 8% for males and exactly 20% for females. In Latin America and

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, the levels of

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at about 11% for both genders.