{"id":575873,"date":"2026-01-27T17:01:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T20:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=575873"},"modified":"2026-01-27T17:01:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T20:01:56","slug":"higher-education-level-among-young-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/higher-education-level-among-young-adults\/","title":{"rendered":"Higher education level among young adults"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The percentage of young adults (ages 25\u201334) who completed at least one undergraduate program is one of the most widely used indicators for international comparisons of higher education levels<\/li>\n<li>According to an OECD survey<sup>1<\/sup>, an average of 48% of this population group had completed higher education in 2023 across member countries (<em>see below<\/em>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><div class='overflow-responsive-img' style='text-align:center'><picture data-tablet=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/RPF-dados-2025-10-info1-DESK.jpg\" data-tablet_size=\"1140x500\" alt=\"Percentage of population aged 25 to 34 who have completed higher education\">\n    <source srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/RPF-dados-2025-10-info1-DESK.jpg\" media=\"(min-width: 1920px)\" \/>\n    <source srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/RPF-dados-2025-10-info1-DESK.jpg\" media=\"(min-width: 1140px)\" \/>\n    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-img\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/RPF-dados-2025-10-info1-MOBILE.jpg\" \/>\n  <\/picture><\/div><div class=\"post-content sequence\">\n<ul>\n<li>Brazil had a rate of 24%<sup>2<\/sup>\u2014half the OECD average. This index has been rising over the years and has increased by 8 percentage points since 2013, when it was 15.8%<\/li>\n<li>Of the other Latin American countries, Peru had the highest rate (50%), followed by Chile (41%), Colombia (35%), Costa Rica (32%), Mexico (28%), and Argentina (19%)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><div class='overflow-responsive-img' style='text-align:center'><picture data-tablet=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/RPF-dados-2025-10-info2-ING-DESK.jpg\" data-tablet_size=\"1140x350\" alt=\"The situation in Brazil: Percentage of population aged 25 to 34 that has completed higher education in each state (annual average for 2023\u20132025)\">\n    <source srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/RPF-dados-2025-10-info2-ING-DESK.jpg\" media=\"(min-width: 1920px)\" \/>\n    <source srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/RPF-dados-2025-10-info2-ING-DESK.jpg\" media=\"(min-width: 1140px)\" \/>\n    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-img\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/RPF-dados-2025-10-info2-ING-MOBILE.jpg\" \/>\n  <\/picture><\/div><div class=\"post-content sequence\">\n<ul>\n<li>The variability of the indicator between countries is also seen among the Brazilian states, as shown above, based on the average of the last three years<sup>3<\/sup><\/li>\n<li>In states of the Southeast region and almost all of the South and Central-West, the rate exceeds the national average, as well as in Tocantins, in the North. The states in the Northeast region are below average<\/li>\n<li>In Brazil, as in most countries, there are significant differences between the education levels of women and men. For the most recent three-year period, the enrollment rate in higher education among those aged 25 to 34 was 28.2% for women and 20.7% for men<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"bibliografia separador-bibliografia\"><strong>Notes (1) <\/strong>Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development <strong>(2)<\/strong> The exact value is 23.8%. The graph shows rounded values due to the layout <strong>(3)<\/strong> The use of a three-year period prevents filtering by state, age, and education from presenting very low numbers in the PNAD-C sample, in some cases<\/p>\n<p class=\"bibliografia\"><strong>Sources <\/strong>OECD\/Data Explorer and IBGE\/PNAD-C<br \/>\n<strong>Prepared by<\/strong> FAPESP\/DPCTA\/GPAFI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Study indicates only 24% of Brazilians between the ages of 25 and 34 have a university degree","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1328],"tags":[226],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-575873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data","tag-education"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575873"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":577494,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575873\/revisions\/577494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575873"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=575873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}