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PISA science

Tier A· Official

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

100 = highest science 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 science — OECD Programme for International Student Assessment, distributed via World Bank indicator LO.PISA.SCI (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 science 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
590.453 PISA points
2ndMacauMAC
82.0482
543.586 PISA points
3rdEstoniaEST
76.8777
530.108 PISA points
4thJapanJPN
76.577
529.135 PISA points
5thLiechtensteinLIE
74.875
524.695 PISA points
6thFinlandFIN
73.7274
521.885 PISA points
7thSouth KoreaKOR
72.6273
519.007 PISA points
8thCanadaCAN
72.2372
517.998 PISA points
9thHong KongHKG
71.7372
516.686 PISA points
10thNew ZealandNZL
68.5969
508.491 PISA points
11thNetherlandsNLD
66.6367
503.384 PISA points
12thGermanyDEU
66.4866
502.989 PISA points
13thAustraliaAUS
66.4766
502.965 PISA points
14thBelgiumBEL
64.8665
498.773 PISA points
15thCzechiaCZE
64.164
496.791 PISA points
16thIrelandIRL
63.8464
496.114 PISA points
17thFranceFRA
62.6463
492.977 PISA points
18thDenmarkDNK
62.5163
492.637 PISA points
19thAustriaAUT
61.4161
489.78 PISA points
20thLatviaLVA
60.4460
487.251 PISA points
21stLithuaniaLTU
58.4658
482.067 PISA points
22ndHungaryHUN
58.0258
480.912 PISA points
23rdLuxembourgLUX
56.4356
476.769 PISA points
24thIcelandISL
55.7656
475.024 PISA points
25thCroatiaHRV
54.7455
472.363 PISA points
26thBelarusBLR
54.3254
471.264 PISA points
27thItalyITA
53.0753
468.012 PISA points
28thIsraelISR
50.8451
462.197 PISA points
29thMaltaMLT
48.6949
456.59 PISA points
30thGreeceGRC
46.7947
451.633 PISA points
31stChileCHL
43.7144
443.583 PISA points
32ndCyprusCYP
41.9542
439.008 PISA points
33rdMalaysiaMYS
41.4241
437.618 PISA points
34thBruneiBRN
38.8839
430.984 PISA points
35thJordanJOR
38.2238
429.252 PISA points
36thMoldovaMDA
37.9238
428.485 PISA points
37thBulgariaBGR
36.2336
424.074 PISA points
38thMexicoMEX
34.3634
419.205 PISA points
39thMauritiusMUS
33.634
417.204 PISA points
40thAlbaniaALB
33.4133
416.726 PISA points
41stCosta RicaCRI
32.9933
415.622 PISA points
42ndMontenegroMNE
32.8233
415.172 PISA points
43rdColombiaCOL
32.1132
413.323 PISA points
44thArgentinaARG
28.5629
404.071 PISA points
45thBrazilBRA
28.3928
403.621 PISA points
46thBosnia and HerzegovinaBIH
26.4326
398.498 PISA points
47thKazakhstanKAZ
25.8926
397.105 PISA points
48thIndonesiaIDN
25.526
396.07 PISA points
49thLebanonLBN
20.7621
383.717 PISA points
50thGeorgiaGEO
20.3620
382.664 PISA points
51stMoroccoMAR
18.0318
376.597 PISA points
52ndAlgeriaDZA
17.7118
375.745 PISA points
53rdAzerbaijanAZE
16.7317
373.184 PISA points
54thDominican RepublicDOM
2.332
335.63 PISA points
55thKyrgyzstanKGZ
00
329.546 PISA points
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