Harmonized test scores — all countries

Harmonized test scores — Papua New Guinea

Harmonized test scores in Papua New Guinea in 2020 — 363 score. Ranked 143 in the world out of 172. Since 2017, the indicator has risen by 1.5%.

2020 363 score +1.54% vs 2018
World rank 143of 172
Period maximum 363 score2020
Period minimum 358 score2018

Trend over time

2017–2020 · score, 300–625

Harmonized test scores — Papua New Guinea, 2017–202035635836036236420172018201920202017: 358 score2018: 358 score2020: 363 score
Change over the period: +5 (+1.49%) Average annual rate: 0.49 %

Comparison, 2020

How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea 363 score
World computed 403 score
East Asia & Pacific computed 436 score
Melanesia computed 363 score
Lower-middle-income countries computed 383 score
Harmonized test scores — Papua New Guinea, by year Papua New Guinea All countries CSV XLSX
Year score Change Change, %
2020 363
2018 358 −0 −0.05%
2017 358

Melanesia, 2020

The same indicator for neighboring countries — with links to their pages

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.