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Brasil has 11.4 million young people and adults who cannot read or write
Brazil has 11.4 million people who cannot read or write, a number greater than the population of Portugal (10.3 million people), according to a survey released today by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE).
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The data is part of the latest Census carried out in Brazil, which indicated that in 2022 there were 163 million people aged 15 or over, of whom 151.5 million could read and write a simple note and 11.4 million could not.
According to the IBGE, in these population groups, the literacy rate in the South American country was 93% in 2022 and the illiteracy rate was 7%. In the 2010 Census, the literacy and illiteracy rates were 90.4% and 9.6% in the same age groups.
The age groups of 15 to 19 years and 20 to 24 years had the lowest illiteracy rates (1.5%) and that of 65 years or over remained with the highest rate (20.3%). However, the elderly group had the largest drop in two decades, going from 29.4% in 2010 to 20.3% in 2022.
The body responsible for the statistics of the Brazilian Government stated that white and yellow people of color or race aged 15 or over had the lowest illiteracy rates, 4.3% and 2.5%, respectively.
On the other hand, black (10.1%) and brown (8.8%) people of color or race, in the same age group, had illiteracy rates more than double that of whites, and that of indigenous people was almost four times higher (16.1%).
Last February, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Brazil considered it urgent to address the problem of illiteracy among children in an age group that was not analyzed by the IBGE in this census.
According to the available data cited by this UN agency, illiteracy affects 56% of children aged seven and eight in Brazilian public schools.
UNICEF's education officer in Brazil, Julia Ribeiro, told Lusa that it is necessary for society to no longer accept "that a child up to eight years of age is not literate".
"It is more than urgent to address this problem, which was already a problem even before the pandemic and which was aggravated by the pandemic," she stressed.
"It is necessary to invest in strategies that look at children who are now at the age of literacy, but that there are also actions with a special focus on those who were unable to learn during the pandemic and were left behind," she concluded.
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