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Table A18. Mean numeracy 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 247.1  
Norway 245.7  
Finland 243.9  
Netherlands 242.7  
Denmark 241.0  
Austria 237.0  
Sweden 236.7  
Estonia 236.1  
Czech Republic 235.2  
Flanders (Belgium) 235.1  
New Zealand 232.3  
Australia 231.5  
Slovak Republic 226.4  
Greece 226.4  
England (UK) 226.2  
Italy 225.4  
Northern Ireland (UK) 224.5  
OECD average 221.3  
Ireland 218.4  
Spain 217.5  
Poland 215.8  
Korea 214.7  
Germany 210.2  
France 207.6  
Slovenia 206.9  
Canada 206.0  
Turkey 196.3  
Israel 191.2  
United States 184.8  
Chile 154.1  
NOTE: Proficiency in numeracy 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" (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 (N).
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