Every three years, the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) evaluates what 15-year-old students know and can do in science, reading and mathematics.
Find out what PISA shows for the 14 countries participating in the region. Latin America and the Caribbean is located in the bottom half of the global ranking of educational quality in the three subjects analyzed, reading, mathematics and science, with better positioning in the first. (Content available in Spanish)
(Content available in Spanish)
Three out of four students have low performance in mathematics, and half of the region's students need basic reading skills. Between 2018 and 2022, this percentage increased in almost all countries in the region.
Only three countries in the region show positive long-term trends in mathematics. Almost all show positive trends in reading and science.
PISA evaluates the knowledge and skills in mathematics, science and reading of 15-year-old students in at least seventh grade. It assesses whether students have the knowledge and whether they can extrapolate from what they have learned.
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