The bar chart below shows estimated world illiteracy rates by region and by gender for the last year.

The bar chart illustrates the percentage of a lack of literacy among genders by region

last

year. In general, there are more illiterate females than males and developed nations had the lowest rate

while

South Asia had the highest illiteracy proportion. Having looked at the given picture for more details, in developed regions, most men and women all knew words. Meanwhile, in the Latin American region, the illiterate figures of males and females were under 10%.

By contrast

, in the East Asia area, the women's rate of illiteracy was at 20% which doubled the percentage of men.

In contrast

, in some poor regions like Africa, the Arab States, and South Asia most nations had lots of people who did not know words. Among that, the proportion of females in these was all high from nearly 48% to 55%.

Although

the figures for males still reached a high percentage, they were still under 35%.