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Themes Summary Table Glossary 2030 Agenda

PORTUGAL

Prisoners: total and by level of education completed

Indicator

2021

11,588

Individuals

1960

8,418

Individuals

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Years	Level of schooling
Years	Total	Does not know how to read or write	Knows how to read	Compulsory Education	Upper-secondary Education	Higher Education	Others, unknown and unspecified
1960	8,418	x	x	x	x	x	x
1962	8,933	2,580	1,972	3,777	590	14	0
1964	8,532	2,375	1,770	3,783	581	23	0
1966	7,411	1,830	1,457	3,524	577	23	0
1968	6,298	1,497	1,169	3,146	468	18	0
1970	5,056	1,225	875	2,520	415	21	0
1972	3,405	x	x	x	x	x	x
1974	2,132	357	468	1,242	57	8	0
1976	3,633	521	692	2,202	214	4	0
1978	4,709	626	753	3,003	310	17	0
1980	5,352	723	891	3,327	397	14	0
1981	5,402	664	876	3,442	400	20	0
1982	4,957	616	x	3,973	345	23	0
1983	6,391	744	766	4,232	615	30	4
1984	7,993	752	990	5,266	896	47	42
1985	9,150	972	1,079	6,002	978	73	46
1986	7,936	769	1,019	5,117	940	50	41
1987	7,965	691	885	5,261	1,014	70	44
1988	7,960	709	894	5,320	907	91	39
1989	8,358	650	887	5,764	953	80	24
1990	8,874	593	968	5,981	1,186	100	46
1991	7,877	636	763	5,202	1,135	101	40
1992	9,451	777	863	6,225	1,314	111	161
1993	11,062	959	1,258	7,303	1,421	87	34
1994	10,120	800	735	6,795	1,583	181	26
1995	12,047	870	873	8,136	1,963	101	104
1996	13,874	1,030	1,014	9,325	2,259	133	113
1997	14,361	1,059	1,072	9,611	2,378	129	112
1998	14,598	1,045	1,058	9,853	2,426	113	103
1999	12,808	881	938	8,638	2,153	95	103
2000	12,771	639	1,077	8,792	1,672	104	487
2001	13,112	720	799	10,260	854	134	345
2002	13,772	725	525	10,924	1,109	159	330
2003	13,635	666	525	10,798	1,174	145	327
2004	13,152	734	639	10,360	1,058	171	190
2005	12,889	676	726	10,049	1,127	110	201
2006	12,636	671	729	9,744	1,126	147	219
2007	11,587	620	645	8,953	1,002	144	223
2008	10,807	558	551	8,388	1,008	136	166
2009	11,099	514	570	8,590	1,113	126	(R)184
2010	11,613	547	536	8,972	1,313	143	(R)101
2011	12,681	541	535	9,875	1,460	155	(R)114
2012	13,614	536	487	10,680	1,614	153	(R)143
2013	14,284	530	502	11,211	1,681	160	(R)198
2014	14,003	516	488	10,958	1,652	194	195
2015	14,222	508	480	11,095	1,574	185	380
2016	13,779	462	445	10,736	1,574	356	(R)205
2017	13,440	475	452	10,402	1,580	308	(R)221
2018	12,867	444	418	9,903	1,572	326	(R)202
2019	12,793	453	456	9,681	1,641	364	198
2020	11,412	407	443	8,473	1,570	357	162
2021	11,588	400	458	8,624	1,606	339	159

Sources/Entities: DGPJ/MJ, PORDATA
Last updated: 2022-11-03

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