World Bank · Education

Proportion of population achieving at least a fixed level of proficiency in functional numeracy skills, both sexes

The percentage of youth and adults (15 years and above) who have achieved or exceeded a given level of proficiency in numeracy. 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
40 of 238 countries
Latest data
2017
Series
40
Unit
percent
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Retrieved
2026-11-07
Indicator
proportion-of-population-achieving-at-least-a-fixed-profinumeracy
Interva ID
worldbank-proportion-of-population-achieving-at-least-a-fixed-profinumeracy

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 40 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

Measured

Covers 40 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

Measured

The median series has 1 observations; the earliest begins in 2006.

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 2026-11-07.

By country

Proportion of population achieving at least a fixed level of proficiency in functional numeracy skills, both sexes for each of the 40 countries it covers, with the full history.

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Ecuador201722.85percent
Hungary201782.20percent
Kazakhstan201773.18percent
Mexico201739.54percent
Peru201724.64percent
South Africa201797.90percent
United States201770.82percent
Chile201537.90percent
Greece201571.17percent
Israel201568.33percent

Provenance

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

  1. Produced by

    UNESCO Institute for Statistics

    UNESCO Institute for Statistics

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

  2. 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

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.

World Bank (2026). Proportion of population achieving at least a fixed level of proficiency in functional numeracy skills, both sexes. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-proportion-of-population-achieving-at-least-a-fixed-profinumeracy (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

BibTeX
@misc{interva-worldbank-proportion-of-population-achieving-at-least-a-fixed-profinumeracy,
  title        = {Proportion of population achieving at least a fixed level of proficiency in functional numeracy skills, both sexes},
  author       = {World Bank},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-proportion-of-population-achieving-at-least-a-fixed-profinumeracy}},
  note         = {Interva dataset worldbank-proportion-of-population-achieving-at-least-a-fixed-profinumeracy; 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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