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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illiteracy

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illiteracy

rates

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for

females

in Latin America

were

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around 12%

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

from North Africa,

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peninsula and South

Asia

.

Males

from these countries had similar

rates

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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.