Share of children achieving minimum proficiency in reading and math by education level by country

Countries reporting
51
Highest
83.78
Korea
Lowest
15.77
Jordan
Median
65.21
Years covered
29
1995–2023
Data points
365

What the numbers show

Share of children achieving minimum proficiency in reading and math by education level is currently reported for 51 countries. The highest value is 83.78 in Korea; the lowest is 15.77 in Jordan.

The median across all reporting countries is 65.21, and the mean is 56.49.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 5.

Over the past decade 9 countries rose and 42 fell. The largest increase was in Türkiye (up 65.4%), and the largest decrease in Jordan (down 43.7%).

Share of children achieving minimum proficiency in reading and math by: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Korea 83.78 2022 down 7.8% falling
2 Estonia 82.41 2022 down 4.5% flat
3 Ireland 79.89 2022 down 2.0% flat
4 Switzerland 79.56 2022 down 7.6% flat
5 Denmark 79.31 2022 down 4.2% flat
6 Russia 77.97 2018 up 10.2% rising
7 Canada 77.67 2022 down 8.7% falling
8 Latvia 76.63 2022 down 2.4% rising
9 Poland 75.92 2022 down 9.1% rising
10 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 75.56 2022 down 3.0% falling
11 Finland 74.89 2022 down 14.2% falling
12 Slovenia 74.86 2022 down 5.1% flat
13 Austria 73.93 2022 down 7.9% falling
14 Australia 72.65 2022 down 7.5% falling
15 Sweden 72.23 2022 up 0.3% falling
16 Lithuania 71.53 2022 down 2.3% flat
17 Czechia 71.38 2022 down 5.8% falling
18 France 70.03 2022 down 7.2% falling
19 Spain 69 2022 up 1.1% rising
20 Norway 68.33 2022 down 11.7% falling
21 Belgium 68.2 2022 up 0.1% rising
22 Croatia 66.16 2022 down 4.2% flat
23 Slovakia 66.12 2022 down 7.9% falling
24 United States of America 65.36 2022 down 10.5% falling
25 Portugal 65.29 2022 down 0.5% rising
26 Iceland 65.21 2022 down 16.0% falling
27 Germany 65.13 2022 down 14.2% flat
28 Netherlands 64.48 2022 down 15.9% falling
29 Luxembourg 62.98 2018 down 0.9% rising
30 Hungary 61.88 2023 down 1.4% falling
31 Israel 61.8 2022 down 5.1% rising
32 Italy 60.87 2023 down 2.8% rising
33 Türkiye 57.6 2023 up 65.4% rising
34 Serbia 56.23 2022 down 6.2% flat
35 Greece 50.58 2022 down 17.1% flat
36 Romania 47.81 2022 down 13.2% rising
37 Bulgaria 43.62 2022 down 16.7% flat
38 Montenegro 39.61 2022 down 5.7% rising
39 Uruguay 34.15 2018 down 8.1% falling
40 Mexico 30.09 2022 down 20.1% rising
41 Thailand 28.53 2022 down 33.5% falling
42 Iran 25.96 2023 up 24.4% rising
43 Albania 25.2 2022 down 33.3% rising
44 Brazil 23.3 2022 down 6.8% rising
45 Chile 23.24 2023 up 4.5% rising
46 Colombia 22.73 2022 up 14.1% rising
47 Argentina 21.33 2022 down 18.5% falling
48 Costa Rica 20.42 2022 down 19.2% falling
49 Tunisia 17.58 2015 up 2.9% rising
50 Indonesia 16.47 2022 down 14.8% rising
51 Jordan 15.77 2022 down 43.7% falling

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Indicator
Share of children achieving minimum proficiency in reading and math by education level
Source
Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
51 places, 365 data points, 1995–2023
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