World Education Rankings: Which Country Does Best at Reading, Maths and Science?

Earth education rankings show how countries exercise atreading, maths and science. A pupil in a science lesson. Photograph: David Sillitoe/Guardian

The world teaching rankings from the OECD are out. The Uk is slipping downward in maths, reading and science, and has been overtaken by Poland and Norway, this major written report of 65 countries reveals today.

Effectually 470,000 xv-yr-olds across the world saturday a numeracy, literacy and science test concluding year, the results of which inform the latest Pisa study by the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

PISA rankings inside OECD. Illustration: Paul Scruton for the Guardian

The Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa) is highly respected across the globe, and enables politicians and policy-makers to appraise how unlike land'south education systems compare.

It shows the UK'south reputation as ane of the earth's all-time for pedagogy is at risk, and has tumbled several places since 2006.

The UK is ranked 25th for reading, 28th for maths and 16th for science. In 2006, when 57 countries were included in the study, it was placed 17th, 24th and 14th respectively. Poland has stretched ahead of the United kingdom in maths, while Norway is at present ranked higher in reading and maths.

Andreas Shleicher, head of the Pisa programme, said the flick for the UK was "stagnant at best". "Many other countries take seen quite meaning comeback," he added.

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Data summary

World instruction ranking

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Country Name	Reading score	Maths score	Scientific discipline score
Green: above average Blue: average Cherry-red: beneath boilerplate Source: OECD, PISA 2009 Database Download this data
OECD average	493	496	501
Shanghai-Communist china	556	600	575
Korea-Due south	539	546	538
Finland	536	541	554
Hong Kong-China	533	555	549
Singapore	526	562	542
Canada	524	527	529
New Zealand	521	519	532
Nihon	520	529	539
Australia	515	514	527
Netherlands	508	526	522
Kingdom of belgium	506	515	507
Norway	503	498	500
Estonia	501	512	528
Switzerland	501	534	517
Poland	500	495	508
Republic of iceland	500	507	496
United States	500	487	502
Liechtenstein	499	536	520
Sweden	497	494	495
Frg	497	513	520
Ireland	496	487	508
France	496	497	498
Chinese Taipei	495	543	520
Denmark	495	503	499
United Kingdom	494	492	514
Hungary	494	490	503
Portugal	489	487	493
Macao-China	487	525	511
Italy	486	483	489
Latvia	484	482	494
Slovenia	483	501	512
Greece	483	466	470
Spain	481	483	488
Czech Republic	478	493	500
Slovak Commonwealth	477	497	490
Croatia	476	460	486
State of israel	474	447	455
Luxembourg	472	489	484
Austria	470	496	494
Lithuania	468	477	491
Turkey	464	445	454
United Arab Emirates	459	453	466
Russian federation	459	468	478
Chile	449	421	447
Serbia	442	442	443
Republic of bulgaria	429	428	439
Uruguay	426	427	427
United mexican states	425	419	416
Romania	424	427	428
Thailand	421	419	425
Trinidad and Tobago	416	414	410
Colombia	413	381	402
Brazil	412	386	405
Montenegro	408	403	401
Jordan	405	387	415
Tunisia	404	371	401
Indonesia	402	371	383
Argentina	398	388	401
Republic of kazakhstan	390	405	400
Albania	385	377	391
Qatar	372	368	379
Panama	371	360	376
Peru	370	365	369
Azerbaijan	362	431	373
Kyrgyzstan	314	331	330

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Source: https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2010/dec/07/world-education-rankings-maths-science-reading

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