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

The diagram illustrates approximate world illiteracy rates in various regions from South

Asia

to developed Western countries by gender in the previous year. The highest women illiteracy figure was in South

Asia

with 55% meanwhile in the developed countries it was just 11 times less than in South

Asia

with 5%. It was obvious that In Sub-Saharan Africa and Arab states, female rates were approximately close to each other, accounting for 48 and 52 respectively.

According to

the chart,

men

's ability to read and write constituted a minority compared to women’s figure. The standout fact is that the highest rate of

men

belongs to South

Asia

which was not over 35%. In East

Asia

, uneducated males’ number was a quarter of the Arab States' rate with 7. The Latin American percentage of

men

with less educational capabilities was one-third of Sub-Saharan Africa’s rate at 10%. In the developed countries there were fewer illiteracy rates among both genders where the figures were estimated at 2% and 1% for women and

men

respectively.