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Half of Brazilians Over 25 Didn’t Finish
Grade School
RIO DE JANEIRO – Just over 50 percent of
Brazilians age 25 and older did not complete
the eight years of basic education, compared
with 65.3 percent in 1998, a survey by the
IBGE statistics institute shows.
Over the past decade, the IBGE noted, the
proportion of Brazilians with a secondary
school education has risen to 21.5 percent.
Nearly 14.9 percent of college-age people in
Brazil are currently enrolled in
universities, double the percentage in 1998
but still far behind countries such as
France, Spain, Britain and Chile, where the
proportion is more than 50 percent.
The IBGE report also documented that while
women in Brazil tend to have more schooling
than men, they still earn less than male
colleagues in the workplace, even when doing
the same job.
Among Brazilians over 60, more than half –
51.7 percent – are functionally illiterate,
with less than four years of education on
average, the study found.
Children and adolescents represent the most
vulnerable age group in Brazil, according to
the IBGE, which said that nearly 45 percent
of people 17 and under live in poverty. EFE
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