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Sunday, May 17, 2009

Illiteracy In Portugal


IIlliteracy in Portugal
The basic literacy rate of the Portuguese population is 93%, however the functional literacy is amongst the lowest in Europe. According to official sources in 2007, 64% of the population never read one single book; within the population component that is functionally literate, only 17.9% read more than two books in one year (data collected by Marktest for TSF). According to INE (Portuguese Institute for National Statistics), only 3.7 million Portuguese workers (67% of the working active population) completed basic education (81% of the working population attainned the lower basic level of education and 12% attained the intermediate level of education).

source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Portugal
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