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Figure I.6
LATIN AMERICA (18 COUNTRIES): a POPULATION AGED <strong>20</strong>-24 WITH COMPLETE SECONDARY
EDUCATION BY PER CAPITA INCOME AND SEX, AROUND <strong>20</strong>08
(Percentages)
100
90
81
86
80
72
70
60
55
59
62
50
49
44
49
40
30
<strong>20</strong>
23
26
35
22
19
24
30
10
0
Total Quintile I Quintile II Quintile III Quintile IV Quintile V Indigenous Nonindigenous
Income quintile
Rural areas
Men
Women
Source: Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Social Panorama of Latin America <strong>20</strong>10
(LC/G.2481-P), Santiago, Chile, <strong>20</strong>10. United Nations publication, Sales No.E.11.II.G.6.
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The data for indigenous and non-indigenous youth refer to eight countries and correspond to <strong>20</strong>07.
In each country, the worst results are observed among the lower socioeconomic strata, while
the gaps between the high and low strata are much wider than in the OECD countries (see figure I.7).
Access and quality failings in education constrain access to higher-income segments of the labour
market thereafter (see figure I.8). Across the region, 30% of school-age children are still excluded from
secondary education and half of the young people in the <strong>20</strong>-24 age group (which includes recent
graduates) did not complete their secondary schooling. Suffice it to say that on average four out of
every five young people between the ages of <strong>20</strong> and 24, from the <strong>20</strong>% highest-income households have
completed their secondary education, while, at the other extreme, only one out of every five young
people of this same age group and belonging to the <strong>20</strong>% lowest-income households have done so
(UNESCO, <strong>20</strong>11).