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 bar graph illustrates the distribution of

men

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and women who are unable to read or write across 6 regions over the past year.

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, there was a higher percentage of illiterate

females

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than

males

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throughout all 6 areas. Developed

countries

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had the least

men

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and women who could not read or write,

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both genders had the highest rates of illiteracy in South

Asia

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. Developed

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, Latin American/Caribbean and East

Asia

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/Oceania had the lowest proportion of illiterates,

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Sub-Sahara Africa, Arab States and South

Asia

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had the highest number of people who were illiterate in the past year. Looking at

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on the lower end of illiteracy rates, developed

countries

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had the lowest percentage of illiterate

men

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and women, with both values slightly above 0 per

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. 10 per

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of Latin American/Caribbean

men

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could not read or write,

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there were just above 10 per

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of illiterate Latin American/Caribbean

females

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. In East

Asia

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/Oceania, there were twice as many illiterate

females

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as

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, with a percentage of 20 and under 10 respectively.

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, just more than 30 per

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of Sub-Saharan African

males

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are illiterate, and there were less than 50 per

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of the female population that are unable to read or write. In the Arab States, more than half of the female population

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illiterate, but only less than 30 per

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of

men

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could not

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read or write. South

Asia

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had the highest illiteracy rates across both genders, with between 50 to 60

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of

females

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and between 30 to 40

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per cent

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of

males

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in the

last

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year.