Average scores of 15-year-old female and male students on the reading literacy scale in PISA, by sex and country: 2009

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Average scores of 15-year-old female and male students on the reading literacy scale in PISA, by sex and country: 2009

Country	Female		Male		Female-male difference
Country	Score	s.e.	Score	s.e.	Score difference	*	s.e.
OECD average	513	0.5	474	0.6	39		0.6

*OECD countries*
Chile	461	3.6	439	3.9	22		4.1
Netherlands	521	5.3	496	5.1	24		2.4
United States	513	3.8	488	4.2	25		3.4
Mexico	438	2.1	413	2.1	25		1.6
United Kingdom	507	2.9	481	3.5	25		4.5
Belgium	520	2.9	493	3.4	27		4.4
Denmark	509	2.5	480	2.5	29		2.9
Spain	496	2.2	467	2.2	29		2.0
Canada	542	1.7	507	1.8	34		1.9
Korea, Republic of	558	3.8	523	4.9	35		5.9
Australia	533	2.6	496	2.9	37		3.1
Hungary	513	3.6	475	3.9	38		4.0
Portugal	508	2.9	470	3.5	38		2.4
Switzerland	520	2.7	481	2.9	39		2.5
Japan	540	3.7	501	5.6	39		6.8
Ireland	515	3.1	476	4.2	39		4.7
Luxembourg	492	1.5	453	1.9	39		2.3
Germany	518	2.9	478	3.6	40		3.9
France	515	3.4	475	4.3	40		3.7
Austria	490	4.0	449	3.8	41		5.5
Israel	495	3.4	452	5.2	42		5.2
Turkey	486	4.1	443	3.7	43		3.7
Iceland	522	1.9	478	2.1	44		2.8
Estonia	524	2.8	480	2.9	44		2.5
Sweden	521	3.1	475	3.2	46		2.7
New Zealand	544	2.6	499	3.6	46		4.3
Italy	510	1.9	464	2.3	46		2.8
Greece	506	3.5	459	5.5	47		4.3
Norway	527	2.9	480	3.0	47		2.9
Czech Republic	504	3.0	456	3.7	48		4.1
Poland	525	2.9	476	2.8	50		2.5
Slovak Republic	503	2.8	452	3.5	51		3.5
Slovenia	511	1.4	456	1.6	55		2.3
Finland	563	2.4	508	2.6	55		2.3

*Non-OECD countries*
Colombia	418	4.0	408	4.5	9	!	3.8
Peru	381	4.9	359	4.2	22		4.7
Azerbaijan	374	3.3	350	3.7	24		2.4
Brazil	425	2.8	397	2.9	29		1.7
Tunisia	418	3.0	387	3.2	31		2.2
Singapore	542	1.5	511	1.7	31		2.3
Liechtenstein	516	4.5	484	4.5	32		7.1
Hong Kong-China	550	2.8	518	3.3	33		4.4
Panama	387	7.3	354	7.0	33		6.7
Macao-China	504	1.2	470	1.3	34		1.7
Indonesia	420	3.9	383	3.8	37		3.3
Argentina	415	4.9	379	5.1	37		3.8
Chinese Taipei	514	3.6	477	3.7	37		5.3
Thailand	438	3.1	400	3.3	38		3.8
Serbia, Republic of	462	2.5	422	3.3	39		3.0
Shanghai-China	576	2.3	536	3.0	40		2.9
Uruguay	445	2.8	404	3.2	42		3.1
Romania	445	4.3	403	4.6	43		4.4
Kazakhstan	412	3.4	369	3.2	43		2.7
Russian Federation	482	3.4	437	3.6	45		2.7
Latvia	507	3.1	460	3.4	47		3.2
Qatar	397	1.0	347	1.3	50		1.8
Dubai-UAE	485	1.5	435	1.7	51		2.3
Croatia	503	3.7	452	3.4	51		4.6
Montenegro, Republic of	434	2.1	382	2.1	53		2.6
Kyrgyz Republic	340	3.2	287	3.8	53		2.7
Jordan	434	4.1	377	4.7	57		6.2
Trinidad and Tobago	445	1.6	387	1.9	58		2.5
Lithuania	498	2.6	439	2.8	59		2.8
Bulgaria	461	5.8	400	7.3	61		4.7
Albania	417	3.9	355	5.1	62		4.4
Female-male difference is smaller than U.S. difference
Female-male difference is not measurably different from U.S. difference
Female-male difference is larger than U.S. difference
! Interpret data with caution.
* p < .05. All differences between females and males are significantly different at the .05 level of statistical significance. Differences were computed using unrounded numbers.
NOTE: The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) average is the average of the national averages of the OECD member countries, with each country weighted equally. Because the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) is principally an OECD study, the results for non-OECD countries are displayed separately from those of the OECD countries. Scores are reported on a scale from 0 to 1,000. Standard error is noted by s.e. In the country column, italics indicate non-national entities. UAE refers to United Arab Emirates.
SOURCE: Fleischman, H.L., Hopstock, P. J., Pelczar, M.P, and Shelly, B.E. (2010). Highlights From PISA 2009: Performance of U.S. 15-Year-Old Students in Reading, Mathematics, and Science Literacy in an International Context (NCES 2011-004), supplemental table R2. U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.