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Proportion of students at the end of lower secondary education achieving at least a minimum proficiency level in reading, adjusted native parity index (NPIA)

NPIA · higher is better · 91 countries

UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) (CC BY-SA 4.0)CC BY-SA 4.0updated 2022
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  1. 1United Arab Emirates1.5
  2. 2Qatar1.5
  3. 3Saudi Arabia1.4
  4. 4Brunei Darussalam1.3
  5. 5Guatemala1.3
  6. 6Panama1.2
  7. 7Peru1.2
  8. 8El Salvador1.1
  9. 9Paraguay1.1
  10. 10Macao SAR, China1.1
  11. 11Uruguay1.1
  12. 12Serbia1.1
  13. 13Malta1
  14. 14Australia1
  15. 15Jordan1
  16. 16Singapore1
  17. 17Canada0.96
  18. 18Latvia0.95
  19. 19New Zealand0.94
  20. 20Hong Kong SAR, China0.93
  21. 21Montenegro0.92
  22. 22Ireland0.92
  23. 23Croatia0.91
  24. 24Argentina0.9
  25. 25Azerbaijan0.89
  26. 26United Kingdom0.88
  27. 27Bulgaria0.87
  28. 28Romania0.87
  29. 29Portugal0.86
  30. 30Lithuania0.85
  31. 31Hungary0.84
  32. 32Estonia0.83
  33. 33United States0.81
  34. 34Chile0.8
  35. 35Moldova0.8
  36. 36Spain0.78
  37. 37Georgia0.77
  38. 38Viet Nam0.76
  39. 39Italy0.75
  40. 40Colombia0.72
  41. 41Norway0.71
  42. 42Costa Rica0.71
  43. 43Switzerland0.71
  44. 44Dominican Republic0.69
  45. 45Belgium0.67
  46. 46Kazakhstan0.67
  47. 47Slovenia0.66
  48. 48Malaysia0.66
  49. 49France0.65
  50. 50Austria0.64
  51. 51Denmark0.63
  52. 52Albania0.63
  53. 53Israel0.62
  54. 54Czechia0.61
  55. 55Thailand0.61
  56. 56Slovak Republic0.61
  57. 57West Bank and Gaza0.6
  58. 58North Macedonia0.59
  59. 59Philippines0.59
  60. 60Uzbekistan0.59
  61. 61Netherlands0.57
  62. 62Sweden0.54
  63. 63Poland0.53
  64. 64Korea, Rep.0.51
  65. 65Greece0.5
  66. 66Iceland0.49
  67. 67Turkiye0.49
  68. 68Finland0.49
  69. 69Brazil0.44
  70. 70Germany0.44
  71. 71Jamaica0.42
  72. 72Ukraine0.34
  73. 73Morocco0.31
  74. 74Mexico0.3
  75. 75Cambodia0.22
  76. 76Mongolia0.11

Proportion of students at the end of lower secondary education achieving at least a minimum proficiency level in reading, adjusted native parity index (NPIA)