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 chart below illustrates the percentage of people who are illiterate in six regions by gender for the previous year. Units are given in percentages.
Overall
, females
across the six regions had the highest illiteracy
rates
compared to males
. Noticeably, males
from Sub-Saharan Africa, Arab States and South Asia
had similar percentages. Despite this
, both males
and females
from developed countries had the lowest rates
for
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females
in Latin America were
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while
for males
it was 10%. This
figure dramatically rose to 20% in females
from East Asia
. In addition
, women from Arab states and South Asia
had the highest rates
for literacy which were about 50% and nearly 60% respectively. On the other hand
,
this
was significantly different from males
in the same regions, the percentages of literacy were less than 40%.
An interesting trend was detected in males
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the Arab
Asia
. Males
from these countries had similar rates
for
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illiteracy
. Their rates
were less than one-third. Unsurprisingly, less than 5% of males
and females
from developed countries could not read.Submitted by mraha409 on
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