Harmonized test scores — all countries

Harmonized test scores — Euro area

Harmonized test scores in the Euro area in 2020 — 507 score. Since 2010, the indicator has fallen by 1%.

2020 507 score −1.76% vs 2018
World rank
Period maximum 516 score2017
Period minimum 507 score2020

Trend over time

2010–2020 · score, 300–625

Harmonized test scores — Euro area, 2010–2020505508510513515518201020112012201320142015201620172018201920202010: 512 score2017: 516 score2018: 516 score2020: 507 score
Change over the period: −5 (−1.05%) Average annual rate: -0.11 %

Comparison, 2020

How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: Euro area

Euro area 507 score
World computed 403 score
Harmonized test scores — Euro area, by year Euro area All countries CSV XLSX
Year score Change Change, %
2020 507
2018 516 −0 −0.01%
2017 516
2010 512

About the indicator

School test results brought by the World Bank to a single scale: a score of 300 corresponds to minimal attainment, 625 to advanced attainment. The point of the harmonization is that countries take part in different international assessments — PISA, TIMSS, regional ones — and their results are not directly comparable. The indicator answers a question that enrollment does not ask: what children have learned during the years they spent in school.

Important: The estimates are released once every few years and rest on the latest assessment available for a country, so the years differ from country to country. The gap between enrollment and results is wide: enrollment can be universal while results stand at the level of three years of schooling.

Source: World Development Indicators (World Bank), license CC BY 4.0.