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 chart illustrates an estimated share of illiterate men and women for six world regions for the previous year.
Overall
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, females show a higher illiteracy rate in every listed region than men, though in the developed countries and Latin
America
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the gap is minor. In
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, in other parts of the world,
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as East
Asia
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and Oceania, Sub-Saharan Africa, Arab States and South
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, the
women
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women's
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literacy level is significantly lower than the men’s
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. Generally, African, Arab and South Asian countries have
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greater number of people who cannot read or write compared to the other geographical areas. In the developed states, the illiteracy level is extremely low, showing approximately 1% for males and 3% for females. Latin American citizens are slightly less educated,
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still with a minor share of illiterate people: approximately 10% of males and 13%
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women. In Eastern
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and
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Oceania,
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the situation is almost the same;
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the proportion of non-reading and non-writing females is more than two times larger than
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of the other gender. The most illiterate regions from the presented ones are Sub-Saharan Africa, Arab States and South
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a quite similar rate of illiteracy
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equal to 50% for female individuals and 30% for
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male
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individuals
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Vocabulary: Replace the words asia with synonyms.
Vocabulary: The word "approximately" was used 3 times.
Topic Vocabulary:
  • Illiteracy rates
  • Region
  • Gender disparity
  • Bar chart
  • Estimated
  • Summarise
  • Main features
  • Comparisons
  • Analyzing
  • Discrepancies
  • Significant
  • Pronounced
  • Speculation
  • Male
  • Female
  • Global perspective
  • Literacy
  • Educational attainment
  • Socio-economic factors
  • Cultural influences
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