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.

The chart compares the proportion of

illiteracy

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between men and

women

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in six different regions for the

last

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year. The units are measured in percentages.

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, what stands out from the chart is that males were more educated than females in each region. The level of

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was the lowest in developed countries, as opposed to South Asia which ranked first. Moving to a more detailed analysis, the percentage of

women

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who were not educated was more than 50% in both Arab States and South Asia, which was followed by Sub-Saharan Africa accounting for roughly 48%. The rate of

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for men was lower than that of

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for

women

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by approximately 20% in these regions. With regard to the areas where people were more educated, the figure for males was two times higher than that for females in East Asia and Oceania with the former comprising 20%. In Latin America and

Caribbean

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the Caribbean

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, the proportion of

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constituted 10% for men and 12% for

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. Developed countries ranked

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in terms of the

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rate which was responsible for merely over 0 in each gender.