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China: Proportion of children at the end of lower secondary achieving at least a minimum proficiency level in reading

Name: China: Proportion of children at the end of lower secondary achieving at least a minimum proficiency level in reading
Creator: World Health Organization
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/igo/

79.60percent · 2016

Proportion of children at the end of lower secondary achieving at least a minimum proficiency level in reading (%). WHO Global Health Observatory indicator SE_LSC_RDNG. Annual figures for China from 2015 to 2016.

20152016

Every year

Year	Value (percent)	Note
2016	79.6
2015	78.1

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Published by World Health Organization. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO. Retrieved 2026-11-07.

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World Health Organization (2026). Proportion of children at the end of lower secondary achieving at least a minimum proficiency level in reading. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/who-se-lsc-rdng (accessed 2026-11-09). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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