PISA 2025 Scores & Rankings by Country

PISA 2025 Global Results

OECD released the first PISA 2025 results on September 8, 2026. More than 760,000 students took part across 91 countries and economies, representing about 33 million 15-year-olds. Science was the major assessment domain, with reading and mathematics reported alongside it.

Released September 8, 2026 91 countries and economies Science major domain

PISA 2025 OECD Average Scores

Mean scores across OECD countries in the three core PISA domains.

Science 482 OECD average

Reading 461 OECD average

Mathematics 463 OECD average

Participating systems 91 Countries and economies with PISA 2025 data

There is no single official overall PISA 2025 rank

PISA reports science, reading and mathematics on separate scales. The positions below are calculated from the published mean scores for each domain, not from a combined score. Equal reported whole-number scores share the same position. Because PISA estimates include sampling uncertainty, small score gaps should not be treated as proof that one education system clearly outperformed another.

Highest PISA 2025 Mean Scores by Domain

B-S-J-Z (China) recorded the highest published mean score in science and mathematics, while Singapore recorded the highest reading score.

Science

597

B-S-J-Z (China)

Reading

535

Singapore

Mathematics

612

B-S-J-Z (China)

Systems in the Top 10 Science Positions and Their Scores Across All Three Domains

Systems are ordered by their PISA 2025 science mean score, the major domain for this cycle. Eleven systems appear because New Zealand and Australia share the 10th score-based position.

The chart shows reported mean scores, not an overall composite score. Country-to-country differences should be read with the statistical uncertainty of PISA estimates in mind.

PISA 2025 Scores and Score-Based Positions by Country and Economy

All 91 PISA 2025 countries and economies are shown. The table is ordered by science mean score because science was the major domain in 2025.

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Country/economy	Science score	Science position	Reading score	Reading position	Mathematics score	Mathematics position
OECD average	482	—	461	—	463	—
B-S-J-Z (China)	597	1	527	2	612	1
Singapore	560	2	535	1	563	2
Macao (China)	541	3	501	5	549	3
Chinese Taipei	540	4	508	3	546	4
Japan	538	5	503	4	525	5
Estonia	527	6	499	8	508	8
Korea	526	7	501	5	522	6
United Kingdom	511	8	494	10	488	10
Canada*	510	9	490	12	485	11
New Zealand*	509	10	497	9	480	14
Australia	509	10	491	11	478	17
Finland	504	12	474	16	469	22
United States*	502	13	490	12	463	27
Switzerland	501	14	470	19	499	9
Ireland	500	15	500	7	480	14
Austria	497	16	467	21	477	18
Hong Kong (China)	496	17	480	15	522	6
Poland	495	18	482	14	484	12
Türkiye	494	19	472	18	462	28
Czechia	490	20	468	20	477	18
Belgium	490	20	466	22	480	14
Lithuania	488	22	464	25	470	21
Germany	486	23	465	24	464	25
Netherlands*	485	24	441	36	483	13
Sweden	485	24	466	22	464	25
Slovenia	484	26	445	34	460	29
France	483	27	456	28	458	33
Italy	483	27	474	16	468	24
Portugal	482	29	462	26	460	29
Hungary	480	30	452	31	459	32
Denmark	478	31	460	27	471	20
Spain	477	32	451	32	457	35
Croatia	476	33	453	29	455	36
Slovak Republic	475	34	448	33	469	22
Luxembourg	474	35	443	35	458	33
Norway*	470	36	453	29	452	38
Latvia	468	37	430	40	460	29
United Arab Emirates	458	38	433	39	453	37
Viet Nam	457	39	392	59	443	40
Malta	453	40	415	49	439	41
Ukrainian regions (17 of 27)	448	41	418	45	431	45
Uruguay	445	42	423	42	405	59
Chile	442	43	436	37	403	61
Israel	442	43	436	37	433	43
Iceland	441	45	422	44	450	39
Brunei Darussalam	439	46	426	41	435	42
Mauritius	438	47	405	55	407	57
Uzbekistan	438	47	m	—	m	—
Montenegro	435	49	418	45	411	55
Albania*	435	49	408	52	433	43
Qatar	434	51	418	45	416	51
Greece	434	51	423	42	424	46
Thailand	432	53	392	59	407	57
Serbia	429	54	415	49	417	50
Romania	425	55	413	51	419	48
Mongolia	424	56	374	69	419	48
Costa Rica	424	56	416	48	387	66
Georgia	422	58	384	67	416	51
Moldova	422	58	404	56	410	56
Bulgaria	421	60	387	63	405	59
Kazakhstan	420	61	385	65	414	53
Malaysia	419	62	393	58	397	62
Colombia	414	63	399	57	381	69
Mexico	414	63	408	52	388	64
Saudi Arabia	413	65	387	63	390	63
Cyprus	411	66	379	68	412	54
Azerbaijan	409	67	374	69	422	47
Brazil	409	67	408	52	377	71
Jordan	407	69	363	75	388	64
Peru	406	70	390	61	382	67
Ecuador	393	71	385	65	366	76
Argentina	393	71	389	62	367	75
Indonesia	389	73	365	74	364	78
El Salvador	385	74	366	73	346	83
Cambodia	382	75	347	80	366	76
North Macedonia	378	76	357	76	380	70
Philippines	373	77	367	72	371	74
Lebanon	372	78	331	85	377	71
Armenia	369	79	348	79	376	73
Kyrgyzstan	363	80	344	82	364	78
Dominican Republic	361	81	346	81	339	84
Palestinian Authority	359	82	350	78	354	81
Morocco	358	83	321	87	355	80
Kosovo	357	84	340	83	350	82
Paraguay	355	85	352	77	334	86
Kurdistan Region (Iraq)	352	86	312	89	339	84
Guatemala	351	87	337	84	334	86
Zambia	337	88	325	86	314	89
Kenya	335	89	320	88	326	88
Dushanbe (Tajikistan)	334	90	368	71	382	67
Rwanda	317	91	301	90	312	90

Positions are derived from the published whole-number mean scores. Tied scores share a position. They are not OECD range-of-rank estimates. An asterisk marks Albania, Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway and the United States, for which OECD advises caution because one or more PISA sampling standards were not met. The letter m means the data are not available in the OECD table.

What Changed From PISA 2022 to PISA 2025

Average performance across the OECD was nearly unchanged in science but fell more in reading and mathematics.

Science

-3 points

OECD-average change from 2022

Reading

-14 points

OECD-average change from 2022

Mathematics

-9 points

OECD-average change from 2022

Science was more stable than reading and mathematics

Across the 35 OECD countries used for the short-term trend comparison, science performance changed little between 2022 and 2025. Reading fell by about 14 points and mathematics by about 9 points. OECD Table I.1 excludes Costa Rica, Luxembourg and Spain from the OECD average used for these short-term change figures.

How to Interpret the Country and Economy Results

Mean score: The average estimated PISA performance of the assessed 15-year-old student population in a country or economy for a specific domain.
Score-based position: A position calculated here by sorting the OECD-published whole-number mean scores from highest to lowest. It is descriptive and does not replace OECD statistical comparisons or rank ranges.
Country/economy: OECD uses this wording because the PISA reporting set includes countries as well as participating economies and reporting jurisdictions such as B-S-J-Z (China), Hong Kong (China), Macao (China), Chinese Taipei, Dushanbe (Tajikistan) and Ukrainian regions (17 of 27).
Sampling caution: OECD flags several systems with an asterisk where one or more sampling standards were not met. Their estimates remain reported, but the results require added caution.

Why Uzbekistan has no reading or mathematics score in this table

OECD identified inconsistencies in Uzbekistan’s 2025 reading and mathematics response data that affected comparability. The OECD therefore reports Uzbekistan’s science result but does not publish comparable reading or mathematics scale scores in the main PISA 2025 results tables.

Data Sources and Measurement

PISA 2025 Results, Volume I

The principal source is OECD’s PISA 2025 Results (Volume I), released September 8, 2026. The performance table draws on the official science, reading and mathematics mean-score tables and the Volume I executive snapshot.

OECD PISA 2025 Results, Volume I

Student Performance Tables

OECD Chapter 2 provides the PISA 2025 country and economy performance comparisons, including the science ordering and the underlying Annex B1 tables used for mean scores.

OECD Student Performance in PISA 2025

PISA 2025 Database

The OECD database is the official data source for the released PISA 2025 international results and supporting files.

OECD PISA 2025 Database

Coverage, Missing Data and Reporting Flags

The Reader’s Guide explains country coverage, the OECD average, reporting limitations, the asterisk flags and the letter codes used for unavailable data.

OECD PISA 2025 Reader’s Guide