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Brazil has nearly 13 million illiterate; figure dropped only 1% in three years, according to research

09/24/2012

Highest percentage of people who can not read was recorded in the Northeast
 
Brazil has 12.9 million people are illiterate, according to the 2012 report of PNAD (National Household Sample Survey), organized by the IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics) based on 2011 data.

According to the survey, the number of people over 15 who can not even write a ticket decreases only 1.1% over 2009. The rate recorded in 2011 was 8.6%. In 2009, this rate reached 9.7%.

The illiteracy rate in 2011 was highest among people over 25 years. Of the total illiterate, 96.1% were in this age group. Among people over 50 years the rate is 18.6%.

Northeast has the worst rates

The Northeast region is the one with the worst rates, focusing more than half of the country's illiterate and recording illiteracy rates of 16.9% among the population over 15 years.

The South and Southeast had illiteracy rates of 4.9% and 4.8%, respectively. In the Midwest, the rate was 6.3%, while in the North, this percentage was 10.2%.


Source: R7 News

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