Nearly 12 Million Brazilians ‘Unable to Read or Write’
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Data indicate that the number of people unable to read or write constitutes 9.9 percent of the majority non-white population. | Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
Data indicate the number of people unable to read or write constitutes 9.9 percent of the majority non-white population, five percentage points higher than the white population.
Brazil's illiteracy rate reached a startling 7.2 percent – roughly 11.8 million people – in 2016, with just over half (51 percent) of its 210 million population only completing elementary school education.
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The numbers are from the latest National Household Sample Survey, PNAD, released by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE).
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