Harmonized test scores — all countries

Harmonized test scores — Lower-middle-income countries

Harmonized test scores in lower-middle-income countries in 2020 — 383 score. Since 2017, the indicator has risen by 4.1%.

2020 383 score −0.33% vs 2018
World rank
Period maximum 384 score2018
Period minimum 367 score2017

Trend over time

2017–2020 · score, 300–625

Harmonized test scores — Lower-middle-income countries, 2017–202036537037538038520172018201920202017: 367 score2018: 384 score2020: 383 score
Change over the period: +15 (+4.14%) Average annual rate: 1.36 %

Comparison, 2020

How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: Lower-middle-income countries

Lower-middle-income countries 383 score
World computed 403 score
Harmonized test scores — Lower-middle-income countries, by year Lower-middle-income countries All countries CSV XLSX
Year score Change Change, %
2020 383
2018 384 +16 +4.49%
2017 367

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.