Average scores of 15-year-old students in PISA on mathematics literacy scale, by country: 2003, 2006, and 2009

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Table B.1.58.

Average scores of 15-year-old students in PISA on mathematics literacy scale, by country: 2003, 2006, and 2009

Country	2003		2006		2009
Country	Score	s.e.	Score	s.e.	Score	s.e.
OECD trend score¹	500	0.6	498	0.5	499	0.5

OECD countries
Australia	524	2.1	520	2.2	514	2.5
Austria	506	3.3	505	3.7	496	2.7
Belgium	529	2.3	520	3.0	515	2.3
Canada	532	1.8	527	2.0	527	1.6
Chile	―	†	411	4.6	421	3.1
Czech Republic	516	3.6	510	3.6	493	2.8
Denmark	514	2.7	513	2.6	503	2.6
Estonia	―	†	515	2.7	512	2.6
Finland	544	1.9	548	2.3	541	2.2
France	511	2.5	496	3.2	497	3.1
Germany	503	3.3	504	3.9	513	2.9
Greece	445	3.9	459	3.0	466	3.9
Hungary	490	2.8	491	2.9	490	3.5
Iceland	515	1.4	506	1.8	507	1.4
Ireland	503	2.4	501	2.8	487	2.5
Israel	―	†	442	4.3	447	3.3
Italy	466	3.1	462	2.3	483	1.9
Japan	534	4.0	523	3.3	529	3.3
Korea, Republic of	542	3.2	547	3.8	546	4.0
Luxembourg	493	1.0	490	1.1	489	1.2
Mexico	385	3.6	406	2.9	419	1.8
Netherlands	538	3.1	531	2.6	526	4.7
New Zealand	523	2.3	522	2.4	519	2.3
Norway	495	2.4	490	2.6	498	2.4
Poland	490	2.5	495	2.4	495	2.8
Portugal	466	3.4	466	3.1	487	2.9
Slovak Republic	498	3.3	492	2.8	497	3.1
Slovenia	―	†	504	1.0	501	1.2
Spain	485	2.4	480	2.3	483	2.1
Sweden	509	2.6	502	2.4	494	2.9
Switzerland	527	3.4	530	3.2	534	3.3
Turkey	423	6.7	424	4.9	445	4.4
United Kingdom²	―	†	495	2.1	492	2.4
United States	483	2.9	474	4.0	487	3.6

Non-OECD countries
Albania	―	†	―	†	377	4.0
Argentina	―	†	381	6.2	388	4.1
Azerbaijan	―	†	476	2.3	431	2.8
Brazil	356	4.8	370	2.9	386	2.4
Bulgaria	―	†	413	6.1	428	5.9
Chinese Taipei	―	†	549	4.1	543	3.4
Colombia	―	†	370	3.8	381	3.2
Croatia	―	†	467	2.4	460	3.1
Dubai-UAE	―	†	―	†	453	1.1
Hong Kong-China	550	4.5	547	2.7	555	2.7
Indonesia	360	3.9	391	5.6	371	3.7
Jordan	―	†	384	3.3	387	3.7
Kazakhstan	―	†	―	†	405	3.0
Kyrgyz Republic	―	†	311	3.4	331	2.9
Latvia	483	3.7	486	3.0	482	3.1
Liechtenstein	536	4.1	525	4.2	536	4.1
Lithuania	―	†	486	2.9	477	2.6
Macao-China	527	2.9	525	1.3	525	0.9
Montenegro, Republic of³	437	3.8	399	1.4	403	2.0
Panama	―	†	―	†	360	5.2
Peru	―	†	―	†	365	4.0
Qatar	―	†	318	1	368	0.7
Romania	―	†	415	4.2	427	3.4
Russian Federation	468	4.2	476	3.9	468	3.3
Serbia, Republic of³	437	3.8	435	3.5	442	2.9
Shanghai-China	―	†	―	†	600	2.8
Singapore	―	†	―	†	562	1.4
Thailand	417	3.0	417	2.3	419	3.2
Trinidad and Tobago	―	†	―	†	414	1.3
Tunisia	359	2.5	365	4.0	371	3.0
Uruguay	422	3.3	427	2.6	427	2.6
― Not available.
† Not applicable.
¹ The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) trend scores are based on the averages of the 29 countries that participated in both the 2003 and 2009 assessments, met all technical standards, and that are currently members of the OECD. The five current OECD members not included in the OECD averages used to report on trends in mathematics literacy include Chile, Estonia, Israel, and Slovenia, which did participate in 2003; and the United Kingdom, which did not meet Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) standards for the 2003 assessment.
²Because of low response rates, 2003 data for the United Kingdom are not presented.
³The Republics of Montenegro and Serbia were a united country under the PISA 2003 assessment.
NOTE: The PISA mathematics framework was revised in 2003. Because of changes in the framework, it is not possible to compare mathematics learning outcomes from PISA 2000 with those from PISA 2003, 2006, and 2009. Because PISA is principally an OECD study, the results for non-OECD countries are displayed separately from those of the OECD countries and are not included in the OECD average. 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 M2. U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.