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United States: Proportion of students at the end of lower secondary education achieving at least a minimum proficiency level in reading, adjusted location parity index

0.90parity index (1 = parity) · 2018

Proportion of students at the end of lower secondary education achieving at least a minimum proficiency level in reading, adjusted location parity index (LPIA). UNESCO Institute for Statistics indicator READ.LOWERSEC.LPIA. Annual figures for United States from 2000 to 2018.

20002018

Every year

YearValue (parity index (1 = parity))Note
20180.903
20120.953
20091
20031.062
20000.949

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Published by UIS, produced by UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO. Retrieved 2026-11-07.

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UIS (2026). Proportion of students at the end of lower secondary education achieving at least a minimum proficiency level in reading, adjusted location parity index. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/uis-read-lowersec-lpia (accessed 2026-11-09). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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