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Proportion of students at the end of lower secondary education achieving at least a minimum proficiency level in reading, urban areas, both sexes
Proportion of students at the end of lower secondary education achieving at least a minimum proficiency level in reading, urban areas, both sexes (%). UNESCO Institute for Statistics indicator READ.LOWERSEC.URBAN.
- Coverage
- 82 of 251 countries
- Latest data
- 2018
- Series
- 82
- Unit
- percent
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
- Retrieved
- 2026-11-07
- Indicator
- uis-read-lowersec-urban
- Interva ID
- uis-read-lowersec-urban
Recency
stale
data to 2018; catalog to 2025
Provenance
1 step
as the publisher declares it
Versions
1
catalog snapshots
Citation
BibTeX + CSL
versioned permalink
Quality profile
This profile describes what Interva can measure in the data. It does not claim the dataset is accurate, complete, or suitable for a particular use.
Recency
0%Latest observation is 2018; the catalog broadly reports to 2025, so this data is 7 year(s) behind (stale).
Method: Compares the dataset's latest non-projected period with the year most datasets in the catalog end in. Up to 2 years behind is current — annual data is routinely published a year or two late — and more than 5 is stale. Measured from the data, not from when Interva last crawled it.
Temporal completeness
32%56 of 82 series skip at least one year inside their own span; the median series reports 32% of its years.
Method: Per series, years present divided by years from its first to its last observation; the median across series is reported. Annual periods are assumed, which holds for every series in the catalog today.
Geographic coverage
MeasuredCovers 82 of the 251 countries in the catalog.
Method: Counts distinct geographies with at least one observation. Not scored: a regional dataset covering its region completely is not deficient for omitting the rest of the world.
History depth
MeasuredThe median series has 4 observations; the earliest begins in 2000.
Method: Counts non-projected observations per series. Not scored: a long history is useful for trend work and irrelevant for a cross-section.
Revisions
MeasuredNo observation has been restated in any vintage Interva has recorded.
Method: Counts values the publisher changed between Interva's publishes. Not scored: revising estimates is ordinary and often a sign of care, and the count is here so a reader citing a figure knows whether it moves.
Schema conformity
Not assessedNo declared schema or validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.
Validity
Not assessedNo field-level validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.
Consistency
Not assessedCross-series consistency rules are not defined yet. The obvious first one — whether two publishers measuring one concept agree within a stated tolerance — is a candidate.
2 scored from the data, 3 described without a score, 3 not assessed. Pipeline integrity: all 5 checks pass. Assessed 2026-11-08.
By country
Proportion of students at the end of lower secondary education achieving at least a minimum proficiency level in reading, urban areas, both sexes for each of the 82 countries it covers, with the full history.
- Albania 2000–2018
- Argentina 2000–2018
- Australia 2000–2018
- Austria 2000–2018
- Azerbaijan 2006–2009
- Belarus 2018–2018
- Belgium 2000–2018
- Bosnia and Herzegovina 2018–2018
- Brazil 2000–2018
- Brunei Darussalam 2018–2018
- Bulgaria 2000–2018
- Cambodia 2017–2017
- Canada 2003–2018
- Chile 2000–2018
- Colombia 2006–2018
- Costa Rica 2009–2018
- Croatia 2006–2018
- Cyprus 2018–2018
- Czechia 2000–2018
- Denmark 2000–2018
- Dominican Republic 2018–2018
- Ecuador 2017–2017
- Estonia 2018–2018
- Finland 2000–2018
- France 2018–2018
- Georgia 2009–2018
- Germany 2000–2018
- Greece 2000–2018
- Guatemala 2017–2017
- Honduras 2017–2017
- Hong Kong 2000–2018
- Hungary 2000–2018
- Iceland 2003–2018
- Indonesia 2000–2018
- Ireland 2000–2018
- Israel 2000–2018
- Italy 2000–2018
- Jordan 2006–2018
- Kazakhstan 2009–2018
- Korea, Republic of 2000–2018
- Latvia 2000–2018
- Lebanon 2018–2018
- Lithuania 2006–2018
- Luxembourg 2000–2018
- Malaysia 2018–2018
- Malta 2009–2009
- Mauritius 2009–2009
- Mexico 2000–2018
- Moldova, Republic of 2009–2018
- Montenegro 2018–2018
- Morocco 2018–2018
- Netherlands 2000–2018
- New Zealand 2000–2018
- North Macedonia 2000–2018
- Norway 2000–2018
- Panama 2009–2018
- Paraguay 2017–2017
- Philippines 2018–2018
- Poland 2000–2018
- Portugal 2000–2018
- Qatar 2006–2018
- Romania 2000–2018
- Russian Federation 2000–2018
- Saudi Arabia 2018–2018
- Senegal 2017–2017
- Serbia 2003–2018
- Singapore 2009–2018
- Slovakia 2003–2018
- Slovenia 2006–2018
- Spain 2000–2012
- Sweden 2000–2018
- Switzerland 2018–2018
- Thailand 2000–2018
- Trinidad and Tobago 2009–2009
- Tunisia 2003–2012
- Türkiye 2003–2018
- Ukraine 2018–2018
- United Arab Emirates 2009–2018
- United Kingdom 2018–2018
- United States 2000–2018
- Uruguay 2003–2018
- Zambia 2017–2017
Latest observations
| Country | Period | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Albania | 2018 | 62.03 | percent |
| Argentina | 2018 | 52.08 | percent |
| Australia | 2018 | 82.63 | percent |
| Austria | 2018 | 73.51 | percent |
| Belarus | 2018 | 85.18 | percent |
| Belgium | 2018 | 73.75 | percent |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2018 | 58.37 | percent |
| Brazil | 2018 | 57.13 | percent |
| Brunei Darussalam | 2018 | 54.88 | percent |
| Bulgaria | 2018 | 68.44 | percent |
Provenance
Who produced these figures, as UIS declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.
Produced by
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
UIS Data API indicator READ.LOWERSEC.URBAN; national ministries' survey returns, not named per figure by the publisher
declared by uis in indicator
Versions
A vintage is a dated publish of the catalog. The current entry is a catalog snapshot; checksums are not recorded yet and are shown as such.
- CurrentCurrent catalog snapshotchecksum not recorded
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Citation
Version: catalog snapshot 2026-11-07. The record labels this as a catalog snapshot because immutable dataset releases are not stored yet.
UIS (2026). Proportion of students at the end of lower secondary education achieving at least a minimum proficiency level in reading, urban areas, both sexes. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/uis-read-lowersec-urban (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.
@misc{interva-uis-read-lowersec-urban,
title = {Proportion of students at the end of lower secondary education achieving at least a minimum proficiency level in reading, urban areas, both sexes},
author = {UIS},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://interva.co/dataset/uis-read-lowersec-urban}},
note = {Interva dataset uis-read-lowersec-urban; catalog snapshot 2026-11-07},
urldate = {2026-11-08}
}DOI: not assigned (not assigned). The permalink is versioned by catalog snapshot; a stable dataset DOI is a later step.
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