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 last year's evaluated rate of world illiteracy between men and women in several regions. Overall, women had higher percentages of not being able to read or write than men. Also, countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Arab, and South Asia were 20% more illiterate than those in developed countries, Latin American, and East Asia. On one hand, for the lowest rate of illiteracy, both the men and women population in developed countries were estimated to be fewer than 10%. Meanwhile, in Latin American or Caribbean, there were about 12% of the female population and precisely 10% of the male population. Also, In East Asia or Oceania, the male citizens were 10% less illiterate than the female. On the other hand, more than 30% of the male population in South Asian and sub-Saharan Africa countries lacked the ability to read or write while there were only about 29% of them in the Arab States. In the opposite gender, more than 50% of women in Arab states and South Asia were illiterate and there were about 48% of them in sub-Saharan Africa.