Education
Proportion of population achieving at least a fixed level of proficiency in functional literacy skills, non-immigrant background (%)
% · higher is better · 40 countries
UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) (CC BY-SA 4.0)CC BY-SA 4.0updated 2023
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League table
29 shown- 1Sweden95.6%
- 2Norway93.3%
- 3Finland93%
- 4Netherlands91.5%
- 5Japan90.8%
- 6Denmark89.2%
- 7Belgium87.8%
- 8United Kingdom87.1%
- 9Germany86.7%
- 10Estonia82.2%
- 11Ireland80.7%
- 12Austria80.5%
- 13Czechia78.7%
- 14New Zealand78.4%
- 15United States77.9%
- 16France77.1%
- 17Slovak Republic76.7%
- 18Spain74.4%
- 19Singapore73.9%
- 20Croatia73.7%
- 21Korea, Rep.70.7%
- 22Hungary68.2%
- 23Italy67.8%
- 24Latvia66.9%
- 25Israel66.7%
- 26Lithuania62.6%
- 27Portugal62%
- 28Poland60.6%
- 29Chile47.7%
Proportion of population achieving at least a fixed level of proficiency in functional literacy skills, non-immigrant background (%)