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TIMSS: Male 4th grade students who did not reach the low international benchmark of mathematics achievement

TIMSS: Male 4th grade students who did not reach the low international benchmark of mathematics achievement (%) is the share of male 4th grade students scoring below 400 on the mathematics assessment. The indicator is the percentage of students with achievement too low for estimation on TIMSS and TIMSS Numeracy combined. Students were considered to have achievement too low for estimation if their performance on the assessment was no better than could be achieved by simply guessing on the multiple-choice assessment items. Data reflects 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
59 of 238 countries
Latest data
2011
Series
59
Unit
percent
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Retrieved
2026-11-07
Indicator
timss-male-4th-grade-students-who-did-not
Interva ID
worldbank-timss-male-4th-grade-students-who-did-not

Recency

stale

data to 2011; 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 2011; the catalog broadly reports to 2025, so this data is 14 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

40%

34 of 59 series skip at least one year inside their own span; the median series reports 40% 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 59 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 2 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

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

TIMSS: Male 4th grade students who did not reach the low international benchmark of mathematics achievement for each of the 59 countries it covers, with the full history.

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Armenia201129.59percent
Australia20119.69percent
Austria20114.32percent
Azerbaijan201128.76percent
Bahrain201136.10percent
Chile201121.85percent
Croatia20119.33percent
Czechia20116.64percent
Denmark20113.38percent
Finland20112.39percent

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

    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

  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

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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). TIMSS: Male 4th grade students who did not reach the low international benchmark of mathematics achievement. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-timss-male-4th-grade-students-who-did-not (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

BibTeX
@misc{interva-worldbank-timss-male-4th-grade-students-who-did-not,
  title        = {TIMSS: Male 4th grade students who did not reach the low international benchmark of mathematics achievement},
  author       = {World Bank},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-timss-male-4th-grade-students-who-did-not}},
  note         = {Interva dataset worldbank-timss-male-4th-grade-students-who-did-not; 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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