Dataset · OECD
PISA Reading Performance
8 years, 2000–2022 · 79 countries
PISA Reading is the mean score 15-year-olds achieve on the OECD’s reading scale, centred near 500 across OECD countries. It is the longest PISA series, starting a cycle before mathematics and two before science.
This site holds every year from 2000 to 2022, read from OECD’s own data and stored exactly as published.
PISA Reading Performance · the file
- Newest
- PISA Reading Performance, 2022
- Held
- 8 years · 449 rows
- Licence
- OECD terms
018 years
Every year
Newest first. Each opens the full table for that year, and each downloads as a CSV.
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PISA Reading Performance, 2022Newest | 79 | +8 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| PISA Reading Performance, 2018 | 71 | +12 −1 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| PISA Reading Performance, 2015 | 60 | +6 −4 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| PISA Reading Performance, 2012 | 58 | +2 −4 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| PISA Reading Performance, 2009 | 60 | +12 −1 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| PISA Reading Performance, 2006 | 49 | +15 −1 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| PISA Reading Performance, 2003 | 35 | +5 −7 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| PISA Reading Performance, 2000 | 37 | — | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
Every year in one file, one row per country per year: pisa-reading-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
023 columns
What’s in the file
Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.
| Column | What it holds | Stored as | Range, 2022 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 79 | 0 | |
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 79 | 0 | |
Mean reading scorepisa_readingHeadline | The headline figure: Mean reading score. | Number · up to 13 decimals | 328.84 Cambodia542.55 Singaporemiddle 440.35 | 79 | 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 better result.
0379 countries across every year
Who is covered
How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.
| 2000 | 2003 | 2006 | 2009 | 2012 | 2015 | 2018 | 2022 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Americas | 7 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 14 | 16 |
| Asia | 6 | 7 | 10 | 15 | 15 | 14 | 20 | 25 |
| Europe | 22 | 21 | 30 | 32 | 31 | 34 | 34 | 35 |
| Oceania | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| All | 37 | 35 | 49 | 60 | 58 | 60 | 71 | 79 |
Who joined and who left
- 2022
+ Spain
+ Jamaica
+ Jordan
+ Mongolia
+ Palestine
+ El Salvador
+ Uzbekistan
+ Vietnam - 2018
+ Argentina
+ Brunei
+ Guatemala
+ Kazakhstan+ Cambodia
+ Morocco
+ Malaysia
+ Panama
+ Philippines
+ Paraguay
+ Saudi Arabia
+ Serbia− Spain - 2015
+ Dominican Republic
+ Georgia
+ Moldova
+ North Macedonia
+ Malta
+ Kosovo− Argentina− Kazakhstan− Malaysia− Serbia - 2012
+ Austria
+ Cyprus− Georgia− Moldova− Malta− Panama - 2009
+ Albania
+ United Arab Emirates
+ Costa Rica+ Georgia+ Kazakhstan+ Moldova+ Malta+ Malaysia+ Panama
+ Peru+ Singapore
+ United States− Austria - 2006+ Argentina
+ Bulgaria
+ Chile
+ Colombia
+ Estonia
+ United Kingdom
+ Croatia
+ Israel
+ Lithuania
+ Montenegro
+ Qatar
+ Romania+ Serbia
+ Slovenia
+ Taiwan− United States - 2003
+ Macau
+ Netherlands
+ Slovakia
+ Türkiye
+ Uruguay− Albania− Argentina− Bulgaria− Chile− Israel− North Macedonia− Peru
Not in this dataset · 146 places this site covers
OECD gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.
Afghanistan
Algeria
American Samoa
Andorra
Angola
Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
Armenia
Aruba
Azerbaijan
Bahamas
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus
Belize
Benin
Bermuda
Bhutan
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana
British Virgin Islands
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cabo Verde
Cameroon
Cayman Islands
Central African Republic
ChadChannel Islands
China
Comoros
Cook Islands
Côte d’Ivoire
Cuba
Curaçao
Djibouti
Dominica
DR Congo
Ecuador
Egypt
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Eswatini
Ethiopia
Faroe Islands
Fiji
French Polynesia
Gabon
Gambia
Ghana
Gibraltar
Greenland
Grenada
Guam
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
India
Iran
Iraq
Isle of Man
Kenya
Kiribati
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Liechtenstein
Luxembourg
Madagascar
Malawi
Maldives
Mali
Marshall Islands
Mauritania
Mauritius
Micronesia
Monaco
Montserrat
Mozambique
Myanmar
Namibia
Nauru
Nepal
New Caledonia
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
Niue
North KoreaNorthern Cyprus
Northern Mariana Islands
Oman
Pakistan
Palau
Papua New Guinea
Puerto Rico
Republic of the Congo
Russia
Rwanda
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Martin
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Samoa
San Marino
São Tomé and Príncipe
Senegal
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Sint Maarten
Solomon Islands
SomaliaSomaliland
South Africa
South Sudan
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Suriname
Syria
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Timor-Leste
Togo
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Turkmenistan
Turks and Caicos Islands
Tuvalu
Uganda
Ukraine
United States Virgin Islands
Vanuatu
Vatican City
Venezuela
Yemen
Zambia
Zimbabwe04Provenance
Where it comes from
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
OECD
2 · Their file
PISA 2022 — reading
3 · Read by this site
September 6, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
8 files, one per year
Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as pisa-reading-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
Precision
The headline is stored to 13 decimals, as published.
Rounded by this site
Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.
Changed by this site
Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.
From the OECD’s published PISA results tables. The OECD publishes three separate scales and no composite, so reading, mathematics and science are three indicators here rather than one — averaging them would be our invention wearing the OECD’s name.
05Reuse
Licence and credit
What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.
Licence · checked September 5, 2026
OECD Terms and Conditions — Data clause
- Share and redistribute it
- Adapt it and build on it
- Use it commercially
- Credit the publisher
The OECD’s own terms for its data: reuse, including commercial reuse, with the OECD credited as the source.
A credit line
Source: OECD, PISA Reading Performance, via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
OECD. PISA Reading Performance, 2000–2022 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/pisa-reading
The publisher’s own citation: OECD. PISA 2022 Results (Volume I): The State of Learning and Equity in Education. Paris: OECD Publishing. This is an adaptation of an original work by the OECD.
Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.
06Questions
PISA Reading Performance: questions and answers
What is the PISA Reading Performance?
PISA Reading is the mean score 15-year-olds achieve on the OECD’s reading scale, centred near 500 across OECD countries. It is the longest PISA series, starting a cycle before mathematics and two before science.
Which years of the PISA Reading Performance can I download?
All 8, from 2000 to 2022, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.
Does OECD rank countries on it?
No. OECD publishes values only. The positions shown on this site are derived by ordering the published values, and are labelled as ours.
Can I use it commercially?
Yes, under OECD Terms and Conditions — Data clause, with credit to OECD. The licence text is linked on this page.