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TIMSS: Fourth grade students reaching the advanced international benchmark of science achievement
TIMSS: Fourth grade students reaching the advanced international benchmark of science achievement (%) is the share of 4th grade students scoring at least 625 on the science assessment. Students reaching this benchmark can communicate their understanding of life, physical, and Earth sciences and demonstrate some knowledge of the process of scientific inquiry. Students demonstrate knowledge of characteristics and life processes of a variety of organisms. They can communicate understanding of relationships in ecosystems and interactions between organisms and their environment. They communicate understanding of properties and states of matter and physical and chemical changes. Students communicate understanding of Earth’s physical characteristics, processes, and history and show knowledge of Earth’s revolution and rotation. Data reflect country performance in the stated year according to TIMSS reports, but may not be comparable across years or countries. Consult the TIMSS website for more detailed information: http://timss.bc.edu/
- Coverage
- 69 of 238 countries
- Latest data
- 2019
- Series
- 69
- Unit
- percent
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Retrieved
- 2026-11-05
- Indicator
- timss-fourth-grade-students-reaching-the-advanced-international-adv
- Interva ID
- worldbank-timss-fourth-grade-students-reaching-the-advanced-international-adv
Recency
stale
data to 2019; 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 2019; the catalog broadly reports to 2025, so this data is 6 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
31%51 of 69 series skip at least one year inside their own span; the median series reports 31% 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 69 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 3 observations; the earliest begins in 1995.
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
TIMSS: Fourth grade students reaching the advanced international benchmark of science achievement for each of the 69 countries it covers, with the full history.
- Albania 2019–2019
- Algeria 2007–2007
- Armenia 2003–2019
- Australia 1995–2019
- Austria 1995–2019
- Azerbaijan 2011–2019
- Bahrain 2011–2019
- Bosnia and Herzegovina 2019–2019
- Bulgaria 2015–2019
- Canada 1995–2019
- Chile 2011–2019
- Colombia 2007–2007
- Croatia 2011–2019
- Cyprus 1995–2019
- Czechia 1995–2019
- Denmark 2007–2019
- El Salvador 2007–2007
- Finland 2011–2019
- France 2015–2019
- Georgia 2007–2019
- Germany 2007–2019
- Greece 1995–1995
- Hong Kong 1995–2019
- Hungary 1995–2019
- Iceland 1995–1995
- Indonesia 2015–2015
- Iran, Islamic Republic of 1995–2019
- Ireland 1995–2019
- Israel 1995–1995
- Italy 2003–2019
- Japan 1995–2019
- Kazakhstan 2007–2019
- Korea, Republic of 1995–2019
- Kosovo 2019–2019
- Kuwait 1995–2019
- Latvia 1995–2019
- Lithuania 2003–2019
- Malta 2011–2019
- Moldova, Republic of 2003–2003
- Mongolia 2007–2007
- Montenegro 2019–2019
- Morocco 2003–2019
- Netherlands 1995–2019
- New Zealand 1995–2019
- North Macedonia 2019–2019
- Norway 1995–2019
- Oman 2011–2019
- Pakistan 2019–2019
- Philippines 2003–2019
- Poland 2011–2019
- Portugal 1995–2019
- Qatar 2007–2019
- Romania 2011–2011
- Russian Federation 2003–2019
- Saudi Arabia 2011–2019
- Serbia 2011–2019
- Singapore 1995–2019
- Slovakia 2007–2019
- Slovenia 1995–2015
- South Africa 2019–2019
- Spain 2011–2019
- Sweden 2007–2019
- Thailand 1995–2011
- Tunisia 2003–2011
- Türkiye 2011–2019
- Ukraine 2007–2007
- United Arab Emirates 2011–2019
- United States 1995–2019
- Yemen 2007–2011
Latest observations
| Country | Period | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Albania | 2019 | 4 | percent |
| Armenia | 2019 | 2 | percent |
| Australia | 2019 | 11 | percent |
| Austria | 2019 | 7 | percent |
| Azerbaijan | 2019 | 1 | percent |
| Bahrain | 2019 | 6 | percent |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2019 | 1 | percent |
| Bulgaria | 2019 | 15 | percent |
| Canada | 2019 | 7 | percent |
| Chile | 2019 | 1 | 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
Not named — the declaration is kept verbatim
International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA)'s Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study
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 2026-11-05. The record labels this as a catalog snapshot because immutable dataset releases are not stored yet.
World Bank (2026). TIMSS: Fourth grade students reaching the advanced international benchmark of science achievement. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-timss-fourth-grade-students-reaching-the-advanced-international-adv (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-05.
@misc{interva-worldbank-timss-fourth-grade-students-reaching-the-advanced-international-adv,
title = {TIMSS: Fourth grade students reaching the advanced international benchmark of science achievement},
author = {World Bank},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-timss-fourth-grade-students-reaching-the-advanced-international-adv}},
note = {Interva dataset worldbank-timss-fourth-grade-students-reaching-the-advanced-international-adv; catalog snapshot 2026-11-05},
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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