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 bar chart, which depicts great detail, provides information on the rate of illiteracy globally a year ago and was classified by area and sex.

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, it can be observed that the proportion of females was at the forefront in every region, with South Asia making up the greatest percentage. Diving deeper, the illiteracy rate of women in South Asia was around 56%, making it the highest figure on the chart. Arab states followed a similar trend as the previous district, with just over half of females who were not able to read,

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women in Sub-Saharan Africa were just below half. As for Oceania, the Caribbean, and developed countries, they all had rates of a fifth or less. Turning to the male ratios, South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa both had similar figures of slightly more than 30%.

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, the rate of Arabic was marginally less than those two.

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, regarding the remaining regions, they only had not more than 10% of illiteracy, with developed countries as the lowest proportion.