Pisa international rankings

How 15-year-old pupils compared

Reading	Mathematics
Above average:
South Korea	Taiwan
Finland	Finland
Hong Kong-China	Hong Kong-China
Canada	South Korea
New Zealand	Netherlands
Ireland	Switzerland
Australia	Canada
Liechtenstein	Macao-China
Poland	Liechtenstein
Sweden	Japan
Netherlands	New Zealand
Belgium	Belgium
Estonia	Australia
Switzerland	Estonia
	Denmark
	Czech Republic
	Iceland
	Austria
	Slovenia
Average:
Japan	Germany
Taiwan	Sweden
United Kingdom	Ireland
Germany	France
Denmark	United Kingdom
Slovenia	Poland
Macao-China
Austria
France
Below average:
Iceland	Slovak Republic
Norway	Hungary
Czech Republic	Luxembourg
Hungary	Norway
Latvia	Lithuania
Luxembourg	Latvia
Croatia	Spain
Portugal	Azerbaijan
Lithuania	Russian Federation
Italy	United States
Slovak Republic	Croatia
Spain	Portugal
Greece	Italy
Turkey	Greece
Chile	Israel
Russian Federation	Serbia
Israel	Uruguay
Thailand	Turkey
Uruguay	Thailand
Mexico	Romania
Bulgaria	Bulgaria
Serbia	Chile
Jordan	Mexico
Romania	Montenegro
Indonesia	Indonesia
Brazil	Jordan
Montenegro	Argentina
Colombia	Colombia
Tunisia	Brazil
Argentina	Tunisia
Azerbaijan	Qatar
Qatar	Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan
Source: OECD

Note: In the US a printing error in the test booklets for reading meant some items had incorrect instructions so the mean performance could not be accurately estimated and therefore no results were reported.