World Bank · Education
Proportion of population achieving at least a fixed level of proficiency in functional literacy skills, male
The percentage of male youth and adults (15 years and above) who have achieved or exceeded a given level of proficiency in literacy. Functional literacy is defined by UIS as the capacity of a person to engage in all those activities in which literacy is required for effective function of his or her group and community and also for enabling him or her to continue to use reading, writing and calculation for his or her own and the community’s development. This indicator is collected via skills' assessment surveys of the adult population (e.g. the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), the Skills Towards Employment and Productivity (STEP) Measurement programme, the Literacy Assessment Measurement Programme (LAMP) and national adult literacy and numeracy surveys. For more information, consult the UNESCO Institute of Statistics website: http://www.uis.unesco.org/Education/
- Coverage
- 41 of 238 countries
- Latest data
- 2017
- Series
- 41
- Unit
- percent
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Retrieved
- 2026-11-07
- Indicator
- proportion-of-population-achieving-at-least-a-fixed-m
- Interva ID
- worldbank-proportion-of-population-achieving-at-least-a-fixed-m
Recency
stale
data to 2017; catalog to 2025
Provenance
2 steps
as the publisher declares it
Versions
1
catalog snapshots
Citation
BibTeX + CSL
versioned permalink
Quality profile
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Recency
0%Latest observation is 2017; the catalog broadly reports to 2025, so this data is 8 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
100%1 of 41 series skip at least one year inside their own span; the median series reports 100% 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 41 of the 238 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 1 observations; the earliest begins in 2011.
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 2026-11-07.
By country
Proportion of population achieving at least a fixed level of proficiency in functional literacy skills, male for each of the 41 countries it covers, with the full history.
- Australia 2012–2012
- Austria 2012–2012
- Bangladesh 2011–2011
- Belgium 2012–2012
- Canada 2012–2012
- Chile 2015–2015
- Cyprus 2012–2012
- Czechia 2012–2012
- Denmark 2012–2012
- Ecuador 2017–2017
- Estonia 2012–2012
- Finland 2012–2012
- France 2012–2012
- Germany 2012–2012
- Greece 2015–2015
- Hungary 2017–2017
- Ireland 2012–2012
- Israel 2015–2015
- Italy 2012–2012
- Japan 2012–2012
- Kazakhstan 2017–2017
- Korea, Republic of 2012–2012
- Lithuania 2015–2015
- Mexico 2017–2017
- Netherlands 2012–2012
- New Zealand 2014–2014
- Norway 2012–2012
- Palestine, State of 2011–2011
- Peru 2017–2017
- Philippines 2013–2013
- Poland 2012–2012
- Russian Federation 2012–2012
- Singapore 2015–2015
- Slovakia 2012–2012
- Slovenia 2015–2015
- South Africa 2017–2017
- Spain 2012–2012
- Sweden 2012–2012
- Türkiye 2015–2015
- United Kingdom 2012–2012
- United States 2014–2017
Latest observations
| Country | Period | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecuador | 2017 | 29.04 | percent |
| Hungary | 2017 | 79.74 | percent |
| Kazakhstan | 2017 | 72.61 | percent |
| Mexico | 2017 | 49.47 | percent |
| Peru | 2017 | 31.00 | percent |
| South Africa | 2017 | 87.70 | percent |
| United States | 2017 | 80.54 | percent |
| Chile | 2015 | 48.96 | percent |
| Greece | 2015 | 71.28 | percent |
| Israel | 2015 | 71.85 | percent |
Provenance
Who produced these figures, as World Bank declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.
Produced by
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization
Read from
World Bank
Education Statistics
declared by worldbank in source
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.
World Bank (2026). Proportion of population achieving at least a fixed level of proficiency in functional literacy skills, male. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-proportion-of-population-achieving-at-least-a-fixed-m (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.
@misc{interva-worldbank-proportion-of-population-achieving-at-least-a-fixed-m,
title = {Proportion of population achieving at least a fixed level of proficiency in functional literacy skills, male},
author = {World Bank},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-proportion-of-population-achieving-at-least-a-fixed-m}},
note = {Interva dataset worldbank-proportion-of-population-achieving-at-least-a-fixed-m; catalog snapshot 2026-11-07},
urldate = {2026-11-07}
}DOI: not assigned (not assigned). The permalink is versioned by catalog snapshot; a stable dataset DOI is a later step.
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