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 column chart gives data relating to the proportion of sexual identity who had no ability to read and write on a global scale as reported in the previous year.

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, boys had a higher percentage of non-literate people than girls.

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, the region with the highest illiteracy rate is South Asia for both males and females.

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analysis will begin with the subjects which had larger differences between the sexes. In connection with Sub-Saharan Africa, there were considerably more women at approximately 47%, than men, at around 30%. Regarding Arab States, ladies, at over 50%, significantly exceeded gentlemen by a margin of under 30%.

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, the figures noticeably favoured gals over guys, amounting to roughly 57%

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with nearly 35% in relation to South Asia. Turning to the remaining statistics which had smaller disparities between the sexes. With respect to Developed Countries and American/Caribbean, there was parity between females and males at 2% and 11% for the former and 1% and exactly 10% for the latter. As far as East Asia/Oceania, the number of women was slightly higher than for men, at 20% and under 10% respectively.