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PISA reading

Tier A· Official

Mean score of 15-year-olds in reading on the OECD PISA assessment. Participating economies only (~80).

100 = highest reading score in the dataset, 0 = lowest — participating economies only, not a world ranking

Mixed reference years (2009–2018). This metric uses each country's most recent available year, so countries are not all measured in the same year — cross-country comparison is weakened. Each row shows its own reference year.

How this score is built

Mean PISA score of 15-year-old students in reading — OECD Programme for International Student Assessment, distributed via World Bank indicator LO.PISA.REA (CC BY 4.0). Direction is higher_better. Normalized with min–max across participating economies.

⚠️ Participating economies only (~80). PISA is a voluntary international assessment, so most of the map is "no data" — read it as a comparison among participants, not a world ranking. The reference year is the country's latest PISA round.

⚠️ Limited coverage — not a world ranking. Only 55 of 250 countries have data for this indicator, so most of the map is grey by design. Read the ranking below (the primary view here) as a comparison within the covered group, not a global one.

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100No data

100 = highest reading score in the dataset, 0 = lowest — participating economies only, not a world ranking

The map is mostly grey because only 55 countries have data — this is expected, not a rendering error.

Ranking

55 countries with data. Rank 1 = best. Click a column to sort; click a country for its full provenance.

Rank ↑CountryScoreRaw value
1stChinaCHN
100100
555.236 PISA points
2ndMacauMAC
87.5188
525.116 PISA points
3rdHong KongHKG
87.1787
524.283 PISA points
4thEstoniaEST
86.6487
523.017 PISA points
5thCanadaCAN
85.4385
520.086 PISA points
6thFinlandFIN
85.4285
520.079 PISA points
7thIrelandIRL
84.685
518.078 PISA points
8thLiechtensteinLIE
83.5484
515.522 PISA points
9thSouth KoreaKOR
82.9383
514.052 PISA points
10thNew ZealandNZL
79.4879
505.727 PISA points
11thJapanJPN
78.779
503.856 PISA points
12thAustraliaAUS
78.1978
502.632 PISA points
13thDenmarkDNK
77.5778
501.13 PISA points
14thGermanyDEU
76.3976
498.279 PISA points
15thBelgiumBEL
74.1474
492.864 PISA points
16thFranceFRA
74.0474
492.606 PISA points
17thCzechiaCZE
73.0573
490.219 PISA points
18thNetherlandsNLD
70.7971
484.784 PISA points
19thAustriaAUT
70.6371
484.393 PISA points
20thCroatiaHRV
68.3968
478.989 PISA points
21stLatviaLVA
68.2768
478.699 PISA points
22ndItalyITA
67.2767
476.285 PISA points
23rdHungaryHUN
67.1567
475.987 PISA points
24thLithuaniaLTU
67.167
475.873 PISA points
25thIcelandISL
66.3166
473.974 PISA points
26thBelarusBLR
66.2366
473.788 PISA points
27thIsraelISR
64.8465
470.415 PISA points
28thLuxembourgLUX
64.6665
469.985 PISA points
29thGreeceGRC
59.4559
457.414 PISA points
30thChileCHL
57.3157
452.273 PISA points
31stMaltaMLT
55.6456
448.235 PISA points
32ndCosta RicaCRI
46.6347
426.498 PISA points
33rdCyprusCYP
45.7446
424.358 PISA points
34thMoldovaMDA
45.5946
423.993 PISA points
35thMontenegroMNE
44.3744
421.058 PISA points
36thMexicoMEX
44.1344
420.469 PISA points
37thBulgariaBGR
43.8744
419.844 PISA points
38thJordanJOR
43.5544
419.064 PISA points
39thMalaysiaMYS
41.8542
414.98 PISA points
40thBrazilBRA
40.9841
412.873 PISA points
41stColombiaCOL
40.7441
412.295 PISA points
42ndBruneiBRN
38.9939
408.07 PISA points
43rdMauritiusMUS
38.3738
406.572 PISA points
44thAlbaniaALB
37.938
405.429 PISA points
45thBosnia and HerzegovinaBIH
36.8837
402.978 PISA points
46thArgentinaARG
36.2736
401.503 PISA points
47thKazakhstanKAZ
30.2230
386.909 PISA points
48thGeorgiaGEO
27.2527
379.753 PISA points
49thIndonesiaIDN
23.6124
370.965 PISA points
50thAzerbaijanAZE
19.6920
361.515 PISA points
51stMoroccoMAR
18.8119
359.388 PISA points
52ndLebanonLBN
16.3116
353.355 PISA points
53rdAlgeriaDZA
14.8615
349.859 PISA points
54thDominican RepublicDOM
11.4411
341.626 PISA points
55thKyrgyzstanKGZ
00
314.02 PISA points
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