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Schooling and access to higher education increase in 9 years
The average schooling level of the population aged 25 years and over increased between
2004 and 2013, changing from 6.4 to 7.7 years. This increase was more intense among
those 20% with the lowest earnings, who increased the number of years at school from
3.7 to 5.4. Between 2004 and 2013, the proportion of persons aged between 25 and
34 years with higher education almost doubled, changing from 8.1% to 15.2%. However,
the percentage was still low compared with the Organization for Economic Cooperation
and Development (OECD) countries.
In the same period, the students with the 20% highest
earnings (5th fifth) were no longer the majority both in the public (38.8%) and private
(43.0%) universities, thus causing the increase in the access to this level of education
by other earnings strata, including the poorer. In 2004, only 1.4% of students of
higher education belonging to the 20% lowest earnings (1st fifth) attended public
universities. In 2013, this proportion reached 7.2%. On the other hand, the students
in the regular primary school aged between 13 and 16 years belonging to the poorest
fifth registered an age-
Source: IBGE
19 November 2014