For the first time, the number of students aged 6 to 14 in primary education is below the target in Brazil, shows Pnad
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Since the pandemic, after the closure of schools for a prolonged period, the number of students aged 6 to 14 who are late at school has been increasing. School classroom in Maranhão Disclosure/Government of Maranhão Data from Pnad (Continuous National Household Sample Survey) Education, released this Friday (22), show that Brazil has gone backwards in an important aspect of the schooling of children and young people: for the first time since 2016, the number of students aged 6 to 14 enrolled in primary education was below the target set for the country. ➡️The IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics) survey states that, in 2023, 94.6% of students in this age group were at school at the correct stage for their age. The PNE (National Education Plan), however, establishes the objective of maintaining a minimum level of 95% by 2024. This means that, whether due to evasion, dropping out of school during a period or failure, students are: behind, still in pre -school (4.8% of all Brazilians aged 6 to 14); or outside educational institutions (0.4%). “These numbers are worrying. We now have many more children who should be in primary school and are still in pre-school. We believe that this is still an effect of the pandemic, of children who did not have early childhood education with schools closed for two years and, when everything returned to normal, the school journey started late”, says Gabriel Corrêa, director of public policies at the NGO Todos Pela Educação. ➡️The Pnad microdata shows that, in 2019, 11% of 6-year-old children (who, due to their age, should be in elementary school) were still studying in preschool. In 2023, the index jumped to 29%. Closing schools during the pandemic led to greater delays. In fact, as the expert above said, the “fall” was even greater after Covid-19: according to Pnad, the index (called “net school attendance”) fell from 97, 1% in 2019 to 95.2% in 2022. In 2020 and 2021, for health reasons, there was no data collection. See the graph below: School Census had already shown age-grade distortion The 2023 School Census, released in February this year, showed that: 👨🏫In 2023, in the 6th year of elementary school, 15.8% of students did not have the appropriate age (because they failed, for example, or because they dropped out of school at some point). At the time, experts had already explained that this is yet another factor that could increase the risk of young people interrupting their studies in the future. Young people without studying or working, illiteracy… see other highlights from Pnad ✏️’NEM-NEM’ GENERATION: Among young people aged 15 to 29, 9.6 million were without studying or working. The number is equivalent to 19.8% of the population in this age group. ✏️ANALIliteracy: According to IBGE, 9.3 million people aged 15 or over were illiterate in 2023 (5.4%). Of these, 5.1 million (54.7%) lived in the Northeast region. ✏️ YOUNG PEOPLE AT SCHOOL: The percentage of people aged 25 or over with completed secondary education rose from 29.9% in 2022 to 30.6% in 2023. ✏️THE CARE CHALLENGE: Among children aged 0 to 3, the schooling rate was 38.7%. There was a growth of 2.7 percentage points compared to 2022, when 36% of children in the age group were in daycare. Although this school stage is not mandatory, the PNE’s goal is to reach 50% by 2024. Videos
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