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

The chart below shows estimated world illiteracy rates by region and by gender for the year 2000. Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information below.
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The bar chart illustrates estimated levels of world illiteracy in six specific regions in 2000, broken up by gender.
Overall
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, the proportion of illiterate women is higher than men.
It is clear that
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the highest rates of illiteracy were seen in South
Asia
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, Arab States, and Sub-Saharan Africa,
whereas
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in East
Asia
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/Oceania, Latin America/Caribbean, and developed countries, they are at the lowest levels. Focusing first on the areas with the highest proportion of illiterate people, about 50% of females in South
Asia
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, Arab States, and Sub-Saharan Africa were not able to write or read, which was 20% higher than that figure among males living in these territories. As for the remaining regions, the percentage of illiteracy in developed countries was extremely low, with fewer than 5% for both sexes. Regarding Latin America/Caribbean, nearly 10% of their citizens were not literate, which was almost the same as for males in East
Asia
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/Oceania.
However
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, the corresponding figure for females residing there
were
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was
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twice as
higher
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high
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