Harmonized test scores — all countries

Harmonized test scores — Middle Africa

Harmonized test scores in Middle Africa in 2020 — 329 score. Since 2017, the indicator has fallen by 1%.

2020 329 score +0.3% vs 2018
World rank
Period maximum 333 score2017
Period minimum 328 score2018

Trend over time

2017–2020 · score, 300–625

Harmonized test scores — Middle Africa, 2017–202032833033233420172018201920202017: 333 score2018: 328 score2020: 329 score
Change over the period: −3 (−0.99%) Average annual rate: -0.33 %

Comparison, 2020

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

Middle Africa 329 score
World computed 403 score
Harmonized test scores — Middle Africa, by year Middle Africa All countries CSV XLSX
Year score Change Change, %
2020 329
2018 328 −4 −1.29%
2017 333

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.