street-food: Education in Portugal

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Potential duplicate cases in the official suicide statistics reported by the Spanish National Statistics Institute (INE)

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The economy of Portugal is ranked 37th in the World Competitiveness Ranking 2025 by Swiss institute IMD. The large majority of the international trade is done within the European Union (EU), whose countries received 71.4% of the Portuguese exports and were the origin of 74.6% of the Portuguese imports in 2020. The Portuguese currency is the euro (€) and the country has been a part of the Eurozone since its inception. Portugal's central bank is the Banco de Portugal, which forms part of the European System of Central Banks, and the major stock exchange is the Euronext Lisbon. Among OECD nations, Portugal has a social security system; social expenditure stood at roughly 24.6% of GDP. The Port…

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Education in Portugal is free and compulsory until the age of 18, when students usually complete their year 12. However, only one of those requirements is necessary. The education is regulated by the State through the Ministry of Education. There is a system of public education and also many private schools at all levels of education. The first Portuguese medieval universities, such as the University of Coimbra, were created in the 13th century, and the national higher education system is fully integrated into the European Higher Education Area. The basic literacy rate of the Portuguese population is 99.44 (99.48% male, 99.38% female, aged 15–24). According to INE (Portuguese Institute for…

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The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (Portuguese: Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística; IBGE) is a government body responsible for collecting, processing, compiling and publishing statistics and geographic information of the Brazilian physical and socioeconomic landscapes and the country's demographics. The IBGE operates the national census decennially, whereby the population is surveyed for data such as household income, level of education, employment status and occupation, access to public services and infrastructure, and general demographics. The IBGE is a public institute created in 1936 under the name National Institute of Statistics. Its founder and chief pro…