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Learning poverty: Share of Children at the End-of-Primary age below minimum reading proficiency adjusted by Out-of-School Children

The share of 10-year-olds who cannot read and understand a short passage of age-appropriate material—in other words, those who are below the “minimum proficiency” threshold for reading.

Latest, 201978.52%Annual release · Not updated
vs 2013+11.0 pp67.55%
High since 200681.51%2006 · World Bank
Low since 200667.55%2013 · World Bank

Over time

2006 - 2019

Recent years

  1. 201978.52%+11.0 pp
  2. 201367.55%−14.0 pp
  3. 200681.51%