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Table A13. Mean literacy proficiency score among adults ages 25-65 whose educational attainment is less than high school, by OECD member country: 2012 or 2015

Country	Mean
Japan	260.1
Norway	251.4
Australia	248.4
New Zealand	247.3
Netherlands	246.1
Finland	244.9
Estonia	243.8
Czech Republic	241.8
England (UK)	241.3
Austria	238.8
Northern Ireland (UK)	238.7
Sweden	238.0
Slovak Republic	237.6
Greece	234.9
Denmark	234.4
Flanders (Belgium)	232.2
Ireland	232.1
OECD average	231.1
Italy	230.9
Korea	229.5
Poland	227.1
Spain	225.1
France	223.7
Germany	219.5
Canada	218.9
Slovenia	217.7
United States	210.7
Turkey	210.3
Israel	200.7
Chile	176.9

NOTE: Proficiency in literacy is scaled between 0 and 500 score points. "Less than high school” corresponds to the 1997 International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED:97) category "lower than upper secondary" (ISCED:97 levels 0, 1, and 2). Estimates for Chile, Greece, Israel, New Zealand, Slovenia, and Turkey based on 2015 data, and estimates for all other countries based on 2012 data.
SOURCE: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Skills Matter: Further Results from the Survey of Adult Skills (2016), Table A3.2 (L).

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