The chart below shows estimated world literacy rates by region and by gender for the year 2000. Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information below.

The bar chart illustrates the level of world literacy in six different regions for males and females in 2000.

Overal

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, the annual level of citizens

tought

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taught

how to write was higher among men.

It is clear that

the highest number of literate people lived in South

Asia

, Arab States, and

Sub-Saharah

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Sub-Saharan

Africa,

while

the lowest

in

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was in

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East

Asia

/Oceania, Latin America/Caribbean, and developed countries. Focusing first on those countries with the vast majority of

literate

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the literate

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population, around 50 to 55 of males in South

Asia

and

Arab

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the Arab

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States had writing skills,

while

for females the corresponding figure was nearly 20 people lower. As for

Sub-Saharah

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Sub-Saharan

Africa, the proportion of literacy among men

amd

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and

women there was below 50 and exactly 30

percent

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per cent

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, respectively. As for the remaining areas, in developed

countries

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countries,

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almost none of

citizens

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the citizens

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knew how to write. With regard to Latin America/Caribbean and East

Asia

/Oceania, nearly 10 of their inhabitants of both genders were literate.

However

, for

Oceania

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Oceania,

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this

figure was twice as

higher

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high

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for men.