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Proportion of students at the end of lower secondary education achieving at least a minimum proficiency level in reading, adjusted location parity index (LPIA)
LPIA · higher is better · 80 countries
UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) (CC BY-SA 4.0)CC BY-SA 4.0updated 2018
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League table
57 shown- 1United Kingdom1
- 2Denmark1
- 3Sweden1
- 4Finland1
- 5Austria1
- 6Ireland0.99
- 7Qatar0.96
- 8Estonia0.96
- 9Norway0.94
- 10Iceland0.92
- 11Poland0.92
- 12Canada0.91
- 13United States0.9
- 14Switzerland0.88
- 15Cyprus0.88
- 16Slovenia0.88
- 17New Zealand0.87
- 18Malaysia0.83
- 19Italy0.83
- 20Australia0.8
- 21Latvia0.79
- 22Russian Federation0.79
- 23Israel0.79
- 24Czechia0.76
- 25Brunei Darussalam0.72
- 26France0.72
- 27United Arab Emirates0.72
- 28Uruguay0.71
- 29Ukraine0.7
- 30Belarus0.7
- 31Greece0.7
- 32Lithuania0.68
- 33Jordan0.68
- 34Chile0.63
- 35Albania0.56
- 36Bosnia and Herzegovina0.56
- 37Costa Rica0.55
- 38Lebanon0.55
- 39Slovak Republic0.54
- 40Moldova0.54
- 41Portugal0.52
- 42Colombia0.51
- 43Kazakhstan0.5
- 44Saudi Arabia0.5
- 45Georgia0.47
- 46Brazil0.43
- 47Thailand0.42
- 48Mexico0.4
- 49Romania0.38
- 50Argentina0.38
- 51Hungary0.37
- 52Morocco0.35
- 53Indonesia0.35
- 54Panama0.3
- 55Dominican Republic0.28
- 56Bulgaria0.25
- 57Philippines0.22
Proportion of students at the end of lower secondary education achieving at least a minimum proficiency level in reading, adjusted location parity index (LPIA)