The international body, to which Chile has been a member since 2010, presented this Tuesday the report ‘A Glimpse of Education 2024’ where it assesses the educational scenario prevailing in each of its full and aspiring members.

An inadequate government budget devoted to early childhood education, falling by 12 percent between 2015 and 2021, is a Chilean trend that stands opposite to the rest of the member countries.

In addition, the average annual expenditure in Chile per student from primary to tertiary level, as university or higher education is known, nearly amounts to half of what the rest of the OECD countries invest.

As for the student-teacher ratio, there are 18 students per teacher in primary school and 19 in secondary school, while in the other member countries of the organization it is 14 and 13, respectively.

This means the teaching staff are overworked, the report points out.

In other aspects, young women in Chile have a good educational level compared to men, but when it comes to accessing the labor market the situation is the reverse.

The document states that the rate of achievement in university preparation is 45 percent for females and 37 percent for males.

However, female graduates between the ages of 25 and 34 are much less likely to get a job than men, and the gap widens when the educational level is lower.

The OECD is made up of 34 countries, many of them belonging to the more developed economies of Europe, North America and Asia.

Mexico, Costa Rica, Colombia and Chile are the Latin American members of the OECD.

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