Harmonized test scores — all countries

Harmonized test scores — Middle East & North Africa

Harmonized test scores in Middle East & North Africa in 2020 — 379 score. Since 2010, the indicator has fallen by 7.9%.

2020 379 score +0.03% vs 2018
World rank
Period maximum 412 score2010
Period minimum 379 score2017

Trend over time

2010–2020 · score, 300–625

Harmonized test scores — Middle East & North Africa, 2010–2020370380390400410420201020112012201320142015201620172018201920202010: 412 score2017: 379 score2018: 379 score2020: 379 score
Change over the period: −33 (−7.92%) Average annual rate: -0.82 %

Comparison, 2020

How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: Middle East & North Africa

Middle East & North Africa 379 score
World computed 403 score
Harmonized test scores — Middle East & North Africa, by year Middle East & North Africa All countries CSV XLSX
Year score Change Change, %
2020 379
2018 379 +0 +0.02%
2017 379
2010 412

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.