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Proportion of students at the end of primary education achieving at least a minimum proficiency level in reading, did not speak the language of the test at home, both sexes

Proportion of students at the end of primary education achieving at least a minimum proficiency level in reading, did not speak the language of the test at home, both sexes (%). UNESCO Institute for Statistics indicator READ.PRIMARY.NONLANGTEST.

Coverage
73 of 251 countries
Latest data
2023
Series
73
Unit
percent
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
Retrieved
2026-11-07
Indicator
uis-read-primary-nonlangtest
Interva ID
uis-read-primary-nonlangtest

Recency

current

data to 2023; catalog to 2025

Provenance

1 step

as the publisher declares it

Versions

1

catalog snapshots

Citation

BibTeX + CSL

versioned permalink

Quality profile

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Recency

100%

Latest observation is 2023; the catalog broadly reports to 2025, so this data is 2 year(s) behind (current).

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

27%

44 of 73 series skip at least one year inside their own span; the median series reports 27% 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

Measured

Covers 73 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

Measured

The median series has 2 observations; the earliest begins in 2001.

Method: Counts non-projected observations per series. Not scored: a long history is useful for trend work and irrelevant for a cross-section.

Revisions

Measured

No 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 assessed

No declared schema or validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.

Validity

Not assessed

No field-level validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.

Consistency

Not assessed

Cross-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 primary education achieving at least a minimum proficiency level in reading, did not speak the language of the test at home, both sexes for each of the 73 countries it covers, with the full history.

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Egypt202329.58percent
Nigeria202310.69percent
Pakistan202317.27percent
Palestine, State of202320.12percent
Albania202184percent
Austria202190.08percent
Azerbaijan202157.66percent
Belgium202190.44percent
Bulgaria202181.16percent
Canada202198.17percent

Provenance

Who produced these figures, as UIS declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.

  1. Produced by

    UNESCO Institute for Statistics

    UIS Data API indicator READ.PRIMARY.NONLANGTEST; 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

Related datasets

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 primary education achieving at least a minimum proficiency level in reading, did not speak the language of the test at home, both sexes. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/uis-read-primary-nonlangtest (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

BibTeX
@misc{interva-uis-read-primary-nonlangtest,
  title        = {Proportion of students at the end of primary education achieving at least a minimum proficiency level in reading, did not speak the language of the test at home, both sexes},
  author       = {UIS},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://interva.co/dataset/uis-read-primary-nonlangtest}},
  note         = {Interva dataset uis-read-primary-nonlangtest; 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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