1. Cuba
No. of high education students per 100,000 people: 7100
In 1961 Cuba started a Literacy Campaign which had a goal for making one million people literate, and for this purpose had employed 250,000 literacy teachers, and literacy level had risen to 75% in the same year. Since this year all the educational system was nationalized at all levels. Afterwards, there had been many efforts to improve the educational system and make schooling accessible to everyone. The success of such efforts could be seen in 99% of primary schooling admission, while admission on the rest of Latin America was only 87% in the nineties. Education in Cuba is funded by the government, being one of the countries in that invest the most in education with 13% of national budget. There are over 47 universities in Cuba today with over 400,000 students. All this facts and efforts of Cuba make it the most educated country in Central and South America.
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This wraps it up for our list of most educated countries in Central and South America.
