Young people who do not complete primary schooling are less likely to obtain jobs good enough to avoid poverty

Among persons with no more than four years of schooling, those who could neither read nor write earned between US$200 and US$700 less in 2006 than those who could.

The aforementioned gap was US$100 to US$150 wider for persons with less than one year of schooling than it was for those with four.A comparison between persons with no schooling and persons with six years of schooling reveals a gap of US$440 to US$1,100.

A per capita gap of US$678 to US$1,557 exists between persons with no schooling and those who have completed lower secondary education.

The greatest difference was observed between persons who have completed upper secondary education and persons with no schooling; the gaps in this case were four, five and six times larger than those between persons who can read and write and persons who cannot.