The bar chart illustrates the approximate rates of illiteracy in the world by location and by sex for the previous year and it is given in percentage.
Generally, there were more illiterate women around the world than men with the highest rate for both genders in South Asia and the lowest in developed countries.
In more details, the men had lesser illiteracy rates than women everywhere. The highest percentage recorded for them was about 35 % in South Asia, while the lowest recording was just a little above zero in developed countries. Sub-Saharan Africa and Arab states also noted values almost as high as that of the South Asian illiterate men at 31% and a little below 30% respectively. The remaining two regions saw nothing more than 10% of male illiteracy that year.
On the other hand, there were way more uneducated females especially in South Asia being the highest with around 55% of unlearned women. Arab states and Sub-Saharan Africa also recorded high values, 52% and 48% respectively. In these 3 locations, there was a significant difference in the number of unschooled women versus illiterate men, same as in East Asia/Oceania whose number of illiterate women was 20%. Latin American/Caribbean and developed countries had the least uneducated female as the former recorded approximately 12% and the latter, as little as 2%.