Learning Poverty

Every edition in one file, one row per country per edition: learning-poverty-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

10-year-olds who cannot read a simple text (%)is built fromPrimary-age children out of school (%)Pupils below minimum reading proficiency (%)

Every column in the newest file of Learning Poverty: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2023	Distinct	Empty	Spread
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	125	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	125	0
10-year-olds who cannot read a simple text (%)learning_povertyHeadline	The headline figure: 10-year-olds who cannot read and understand a simple text (%).	Number · up to 16 decimals	2.331Ireland98.504Zambiamiddle 34.024	125	0
Primary-age children out of school (%)schooling_deprivationPart of the headline	Share of children of primary-school age who are not in school, in %.	Number · up to 16 decimals	0.0003 share it63.196DR Congomiddle 3.155	123	0
Pupils below minimum reading proficiency (%)learning_deprivationPart of the headline	Share of pupils at the end of primary school who fall below the minimum reading proficiency level, in %.	Number · up to 16 decimals	0.7974South Korea98.2424Zambiamiddle 32.5674	125	0
FemalefemaleWomen	The same measure, for women.	Number · up to 16 decimals	2.031Luxembourg100.000Nigermiddle 21.736	82	43
MalemaleMen	The same measure, for men.	Number · up to 16 decimals	2.45Ireland98.13Laosmiddle 28.38	82	43
Reference yearreference_yearReading year	The year this country’s reading describes. Readings from different years sit side by side.	Year	—	16	0

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the worse result.

One edition, covering 125 countries.

Not in this dataset · 99 places this site covers

World Bank Group and UNESCO Institute for Statistics gives no figure for these in any edition held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

American SamoaAndorraAngolaAnguillaAntigua and BarbudaArubaBahamasBarbadosBelarusBermudaBhutanBoliviaBosnia and HerzegovinaBritish Virgin IslandsBruneiCabo VerdeCayman IslandsCentral African RepublicChannel IslandsCook IslandsCubaCuraçaoDjiboutiDominicaEquatorial GuineaEritreaEstoniaEswatiniFaroe IslandsFijiFrench PolynesiaGambiaGhanaGibraltarGreenlandGrenadaGuamGuinea-BissauGuyanaHaitiIraqIsle of ManJamaicaKiribatiLebanonLiberiaLibyaLiechtensteinMalawiMaldivesMarshall IslandsMicronesiaMonacoMontserratMozambiqueNamibiaNauruNepalNew CaledoniaNigeriaNiueNorth KoreaNorthern Mariana IslandsPalauPalestinePapua New GuineaPuerto RicoRwandaSaint Kitts and NevisSaint LuciaSaint MartinSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesSamoaSan MarinoSão Tomé and PríncipeSeychellesSierra LeoneSint MaartenSolomon IslandsSomaliaSomalilandSouth SudanSudanSurinameSwitzerlandSyriaTaiwanTajikistanTanzaniaTimor-LesteTongaTurkmenistanTurks and Caicos IslandsTuvaluUnited States Virgin IslandsVanuatuVatican CityVenezuelaZimbabwe

1. 1 · Publisher

   World Bank Group and UNESCO Institute for Statistics

   worldbank.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Learning Poverty (readings to 2023)

   WB_LPGD_WIDEF.csv

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 26, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   1 file, one per edition

   It downloads as a CSV: learning-poverty-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/learning-poverty

From World Bank Data360 (Learning Poverty Global Database), each country's most recent reading. The two parts of the headline — children out of school and pupils below minimum reading proficiency — are stored beside it, with female and male rates where published.

• Charted

  Learning Poverty by country

  Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.

• Subjects

  • Education & Knowledge

• Near neighbours

  • Government Spending on EducationUIS · 51 held · 1971–2023
  • Upper Secondary Completion RateUIS · 45 held · 1981–2025
  • Out-of-School Rate, PrimaryUIS · 32 held · 1981–2024