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Table A20. Mean numeracy proficiency score among adults ages 25-65 whose educational attainment is a postsecondary degree, by OECD member country: 2012 or 2015

Country Mean  
Czech Republic 310.5  
Flanders (Belgium) 309.3  
Netherlands 307.9  
Japan 307.6  
Sweden 306.8  
Austria 305.9  
Slovak Republic 305.7  
Finland 305.1  
Norway 304.4  
Denmark 301.8  
Germany 300.8  
France 294.7  
Australia 293.2  
New Zealand 292.1  
OECD average 292.0  
Slovenia 291.4  
Poland 290.3  
Estonia 289.8  
Northern Ireland (UK) 289.6  
England (UK) 287.1  
United States 286.7  
Ireland 285.7  
Korea 285.6  
Canada 284.5  
Greece 280.6  
Italy 280.2  
Spain 277.9  
Israel 276.6  
Turkey 266.7  
Chile 250.3  
NOTE: Proficiency in numeracy is scaled between 0 and 500 score points. “Postsecondary degree” includes associate’s or higher degrees, and corresponds to the 1997 International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED:97) category "tertiary" (ISCED:97 levels 5 and 6). 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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