Minimum Proficiency in Reading, End of Lower Secondary

Every edition in one file, one row per country per edition: reading-proficiency-lower-secondary-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Minimum Proficiency in Reading, End of Lower Secondary: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2022	Distinct	Empty	Spread
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	94	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	94	0
Students at the end of lower secondary reaching minimum proficiency in reading (%)reading_proficiency_lower_secondaryHeadline	The headline figure: Students at the end of lower secondary reaching minimum proficiency in reading (%).	Number · up to 15 decimals	5.04Zambia88.83Singaporemiddle 58.59	93	0
FemalefemaleWomen	The same measure, for women.	Number · up to 15 decimals	6.48Zambia91.75Irelandmiddle 65.40	90	3
MalemaleMen	The same measure, for men.	Number · up to 15 decimals	3.52Zambia86.32Singaporemiddle 53.22	90	3
Reference yearreference_yearReading year	The year this country’s reading describes. Readings from different years sit side by side.	Year	—	6	0
Assessment (UIS footnote)data_sourceLabel	UIS’s own footnote naming the learning assessment this reading comes from — its benchmark, the school grade tested, and any part of the country it is limited to. Readings from different assessments are not directly comparable.	Text	—	4	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.

One edition, covering 94 countries.

Not in this dataset · 131 places this site covers

UIS 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.

AfghanistanAmerican SamoaAndorraAngolaAnguillaAntigua and BarbudaArmeniaArubaBahamasBahrainBangladeshBarbadosBelizeBeninBermudaBhutanBoliviaBotswanaBritish Virgin IslandsBurkina FasoBurundiCabo VerdeCameroonCayman IslandsCentral African RepublicChadChannel IslandsChinaComorosCook IslandsCôte d’IvoireCubaCuraçaoDjiboutiDominicaDR CongoEgyptEquatorial GuineaEritreaEswatiniEthiopiaFaroe IslandsFijiFrench PolynesiaGabonGambiaGhanaGibraltarGreenlandGrenadaGuamGuineaGuinea-BissauGuyanaHaitiIndiaIranIraqIsle of ManKenyaKiribatiKosovoKuwaitLaosLesothoLiberiaLibyaMadagascarMalawiMaldivesMaliMarshall IslandsMauritaniaMicronesiaMonacoMontserratMozambiqueMyanmarNamibiaNauruNepalNew CaledoniaNicaraguaNigerNigeriaNiueNorth KoreaNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsOmanPakistanPalauPapua New GuineaPuerto RicoRepublic of the CongoRwandaSaint Kitts and NevisSaint LuciaSaint MartinSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesSamoaSan MarinoSão Tomé and PríncipeSeychellesSierra LeoneSint MaartenSolomon IslandsSomaliaSomalilandSouth AfricaSouth SudanSri LankaSudanSurinameSyriaTaiwanTajikistanTanzaniaTimor-LesteTogoTongaTurkmenistanTurks and Caicos IslandsTuvaluUgandaUnited States Virgin IslandsVanuatuVatican CityVenezuelaYemenZimbabwe

1. 1 · Publisher

   UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)

   databrowser.uis.unesco.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Minimum Proficiency in Reading, End of Lower Secondary — UIS (readings to 2022)

   indicators

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 29, 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: reading-proficiency-lower-secondary-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/reading-proficiency-lower-secondary

From the UNESCO Institute for Statistics data API (READ.LOWERSEC), latest available reading per country, with UIS’s own footnote naming the assessment. Female and male shares are stored beside the headline.

• Charted

  Minimum Proficiency in Reading, End of Lower Secondary by country

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

• Subjects

  • Education & Knowledge

• Near neighbours

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