Average PISA combined mathematics literacy scores and subscale scores of 15-year-old students, by jurisdiction: 2003

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Table B.1.19.

Average PISA combined mathematics literacy scores and subscale scores of 15-year-old students, by jurisdiction: 2003

Jurisdiction	Combined mathematics literacy scale		Mathematics subscale
	Combined mathematics literacy scale		Space and shape		Change and relationships		Quantity		Uncertainty
	Average score	s.e.	Average score	s.e.	Average score	s.e.	Average score	s.e.	Average score	s.e.
OECD average	500	0.6	496	0.7	499	0.7	501	0.6	502	0.6

OECD countries
Australia	524	2.2	521	2.3	525	2.3	517	2.1	531	2.2
Austria	506	3.3	515	3.5	500	3.6	513	3.0	494	3.1
Belgium	529	2.3	530	2.3	535	2.5	530	2.3	526	2.2
Canada	533	1.8	518	1.8	537	1.9	528	1.9	542	1.8
Czech Republic	517	3.6	527	4.1	515	3.5	528	3.5	500	3.1

Denmark	514	2.7	512	2.8	509	3.0	516	2.6	516	2.8
Finland	544	1.9	539	2.0	543	2.2	549	1.8	545	2.1
France	511	2.5	508	3.0	520	2.6	507	2.5	506	2.4
Germany	503	3.3	500	3.3	507	3.7	514	3.4	493	3.3
Greece	445	3.9	437	3.8	436	4.3	446	4.0	458	3.5

Hungary	490	2.8	479	3.3	495	3.1	496	2.7	489	2.6
Iceland	515	1.4	504	1.5	510	1.4	513	1.5	528	1.5
Ireland	503	2.5	476	2.4	506	2.5	502	2.5	517	2.7
Italy	466	3.1	470	3.1	452	3.2	475	3.4	463	3.0
Japan	534	4.0	553	4.3	536	4.3	527	3.8	528	3.9

Korea, Republic of	542	3.2	552	3.8	548	3.5	537	3.0	538	3.0
Luxembourg	493	1.0	488	1.4	487	1.2	502	1.1	492	1.1
Mexico	385	3.6	382	3.2	364	4.1	394	3.9	390	3.3
Netherlands	538	3.1	526	2.9	551	3.1	528	3.1	549	3.0
New Zealand	524	2.3	525	2.3	526	2.4	511	2.2	532	2.3

Norway	495	2.4	483	2.5	488	2.6	494	2.2	513	2.6
Poland	490	2.5	490	2.7	484	2.7	492	2.5	494	2.4
Portugal	466	3.4	450	3.4	468	4.0	465	3.5	471	3.4
Slovak Republic	498	3.4	505	4.0	494	3.5	513	3.4	476	3.2
Spain	485	2.4	477	2.6	481	2.8	492	2.5	489	2.4

Sweden	509	2.6	498	2.6	505	2.9	514	2.5	511	2.7
Switzerland	527	3.4	540	3.5	523	3.7	533	3.1	517	3.3
Turkey	423	6.7	417	6.4	423	7.6	413	6.8	443	6.2
United States	483	*3.0*	472	*2.8*	486	*3.0*	476	*3.2*	492	*3.0*

Non-OECD jurisdictions
Hong Kong-China	550	4.5	558	4.9	540	4.7	545	4.2	558	4.6
Indonesia	360	3.9	361	3.7	334	4.6	358	4.3	385	2.9
Latvia	483	3.7	486	4.0	487	4.4	482	3.6	474	3.3
Liechtenstein	536	4.1	538	4.6	540	3.7	534	4.1	523	3.7
Macao-China	527	2.9	528	3.3	519	3.5	533	3.0	532	3.2

Russian Federation	468	4.2	474	4.7	477	4.6	472	4.0	437	4.0
Serbia and Montenegro	437	3.8	433	3.9	419	4.0	456	3.8	428	3.5
Thailand	417	3.0	424	3.4	405	3.4	415	3.2	423	2.5
Tunisia	359	2.5	359	2.6	337	2.8	364	2.8	363	2.3
Uruguay	422	3.3	412	3.0	417	3.6	430	3.2	419	3.1

NOTE: The OECD average is the average of the national averages of the OECD member countries with data available. Because PISA is principally an OECD study, the results for non-OECD jurisdictions are displayed separately from those of the OECD countries and are not included in the OECD average. Apparent differences may not be statistically significant. Standard error is noted by s.e.

SOURCE: Data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), 2003. Lemke, M., Sen, A., Pahlke, E., Partelow, L., Miller, D., Williams, T., Kastberg, D., and Jocelyn, L. (2004). International Outcomes of Learning in Mathematics Literacy and Problem Solving: PISA 2003 Results From the U.S. Perspective (NCES 2005-003), table B-3. National Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. Washington, DC.