Talk:Brazil Program/Education program/Background

Some data[edit]

List of universities in Brazil (Portuguese)
Top 100 (according to ARWU 2010 ranking)
Largest universities (by number of students - 2008)
Another interesting ranking based on Enade: Veja a lista completa das melhores universidades do Brasil (Portuguese). The top 5 are from Minas Gerais state, a place where we don't seem to have a lot of wikimedians doing offline activities. For sure USP and UNICAMP haven't participated of this ranking.

38% of functional illiteracy among university students in Brazil, Estadão, July 17 2012 (Portuguese)
Only about 25% of the Brazilian population has an adequate literacy level for reading, writing and basic math: Apenas 1 em cada 4 brasileiros domina leitura, escrita e matemática, segundo pesquisa (Portuguese)
- From 2001 to 2011, the level of functionally illiterates and illiterates decreased from 39% to 27%.
Map of funcional literacy around the country, G1, Sept 2012. --Ezalvarenga (talk) 12:50, 27 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Broad band Internet access doubled in one year 30 July 2012 (Portuguese)
- 16 million+ users with a Internet speedy more than 2mbps
Acessos em banda larga tem crescimento de 58%, Oct 2012
- "broadband Internet has grown 58% here in the last year, where 7,7% is home Internet and 84% mobile. More than 3000 cities already have 3g Internet, achieving about 87% of the population".