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. You should write at least 150 words. Estimated world illiteracy rates, by region and by gender, last year

The bar chart delineates the

population

by sex and region of worldwide

illiteracy

.

Overall

, an obviously noticeable fact that emerges is that females overtake the male

population

for

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rate of

illiteracy

. Right off the bat, developed countries witnessed only a small percentage of

illiteracy

with both below one-tenth of its

population

. Other than that, the Caribbean’s male rate of

illiteracy

is just above 10% and

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percentage is slightly above theirs.

Moreover

, Sub-Saharan has over 30% male illiterate

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and less than half of illiterate female citizens. On a

further

note, it can be observed that Oceania has less

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one-tenth of male

illiterates

, and one-fifth of female

illiterates

, causing them to have over a whopping 50% difference in citizens that cannot read.

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Arab States

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a 20%

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in illiterate

citizen

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citizens

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of over 50% for

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females

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and around one-third of its male

population

,

Finally

, South Asia, with the largest percentage of female

illiterates

(55%) and male

illiterates

(35%) causing a 20% difference in its functionally reading-abled citizen

population

.