Dataset
Average performance of 15-year-old girls and boys in reading
owid.pisa-mean-performance-on-the-reading-scale-by-sex
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About
Assessed through the PISA reading scale, which measures how well someone can understand and use written information to learn new things and be a part of society. Population by country, available from 10,000 BCE to 2023, based on data and estimates from different sources. Regions defined by Our World in Data, which are used in OWID charts and maps.
Cite as: OECD (2023) – with minor processing by Our World in Data. “PISA reading scores for girls” [dataset]. OECD, “PISA Database” [original data].
- Publisher
- Our World in Data
- Tier
- Official
- Covers
- 2000–2023
- Places
- Countries, regions and groups of the world
- Updated
- annual
- Last modified
- 2024-07-15
- Units
- people; score
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
- Method
- https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/pisa-mean-performance-on-the-reading-scale-by-sex
Columns
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| entity | text | country, region or group |
| code | text | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3, OWID_ for OWID's own groups, empty for most regions |
| year | integer | |
| pisa_reading_average_girls | number | PISA reading scores for girls (score) |
| pisa_reading_average_boys | number | PISA reading scores for boys (score) |
| population_historical | number | Population (people) |
| owid_region | text | World region according to OWID |
Dimensions
| Name | Values |
|---|---|
| entity | |
| year |