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PISA 2022 Results (Volume I): The State of Learning and Equity in Education |
PISA 2022 Results (Volume II): Learning During - and From - Disruption |
PISA 2022 Results (Volume III): Creative Minds, Creative Schools |
PISA 2018 Results (Volume IV): Are Students Smart About Money? |
PISA 2018 Results (Volume VI): Are Students Ready to Thrive in an Interconnected World? |
PISA 2018: Are Students Ready To Take On Environmental Challenges? |
Education at a Glance 2024 (EAG 2024): Highlights |
EAG 2024, Chapter A: The output of educational institutions and the impact of learning |
EAG 2024, Chapter B: Access to education, participation and progression |
EAG 2024, Chapter C: Financial resources invested in education |
EAG 2024, Chapter D: Teachers, learning environment and organisation of schools |
Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC) |
TALIS 2018: Highlight indicators |
TALIS 2018 (Volume I): Teachers and School Leaders as Lifelong Learners |
TALIS 2018 (Volume II): Teachers and School Leaders as Valued Professionals |
TALIS 2018 (results for primary and upper secondary) |
TALIS 2018: Starting Strong Survey |
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Impact of COVID-19 in education |
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Master's long first degree (LFD) degree |
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Migrant background
On average across OECD countries, 12.9% of students in 2022 have an immigrant background, up from 9.5% in 2009. The percentage of students with an immigrant background varies widely across countries (from 60% in Macao (China) to 0.1% in Viet Nam) but also within countries, as immigrant children are often concentrated in schools and classrooms, amplifying the challenge of diversity for teachers and school leaders. On average across countries with relatively large immigrant student populations, attending a school with a high concentration of immigrant students is not associated with poorer student performance, after accounting for the school's socio-economic intake. The average difference in mathematics performance between immigrant and non-immigrant students with a similar socio-economic profile is 15 score points in favor of non-immigrant students. The average difference shrinks to almost 5 score points after taking into account the language spoken at home. The average difference in science performance between immigrant and non-immigrant students with similar socio-economic status and familiarity with the test language narrowed by 6 score points between 2006 and 2015. On average across OECD countries, and after taking their socio-economic status into account, immigrant students are almost more than twice as likely as their non-immigrant peers to complete tertiary education. Immigrant students are more at risk of repeating a grade and being enrolled in a vocational programme than non-immigrant students in nearly all countries participating in PISA 2015. Some 58% of first-generation immigrant students have at least one parent as educated as the average parent in the host country, but around 41% of second-generation and about 62% of first-generation immigrant students do not speak the language of the PISA test at home. Immigrant adults with a foreign-language background have significantly lower proficiency in literacy, numeracy and problem solving in technology-rich environments than native-born adults, whose first or second language learned as a child was the same as that of the assessment, even after other factors are taken into account.
| Education policies: Migrant background | PISA 2022 | PISA 2022 Results (Volume I): The State of Learning and Equity in Education | International Migration Outlook 2019 | Immigrant Students at School: Easing the Journey towards Integration | Results from the Starting Strong Survey 2018 | Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC) |
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Note: These values should be interpreted with care since they are influenced
by countries' specific contexts and trade-offs. In education, there is often no simple
most- or least-efficient model. For instance, the share of private expenditure in
education must be read against other measures designed to mitigate inequities,
such as loans and grants; longer learning time is an opportunity to convey
more and better content to students, but may hinder investments in other important
areas. If you want further information on the nature of different variables, please
take the time to read the analysis and contextual information, available at the website
for each publication.
The OECD average includes only OECD countries which are listed here: http://www.oecd.org/about/membersandpartners/
Reference years displayed in the Education GPS correspond to the most common year of reference among countries for which data is available on each variable. Data for the latest available year is preferred and some countries may have provided data refering to a more recent or late year. To know more about possible exceptions on data please click on the "Download Indicator" link on each variable. When a year of reference corresponds to a school year encompassing two years, the reference reads as follows: 2018 for school year 2017/2018.
*TALIS averages are based on all countries participating in the TALIS survey, including partner countries and economies. This explains the difference between the OECD average and the TALIS average. Data from the TALIS survey and Education at a Glance (EAG) may differ. See Annex E of the TALIS technical report and Annex 3 of EAG 2021 for more details about the data collections.
B-S-J-Z (China) refers to the four PISA-participating provinces/municipalities of the People's Republic of China: Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
For additional notes, please refer to annexes in the list of links below the introductory text.
The OECD average includes only OECD countries which are listed here: http://www.oecd.org/about/membersandpartners/
Reference years displayed in the Education GPS correspond to the most common year of reference among countries for which data is available on each variable. Data for the latest available year is preferred and some countries may have provided data refering to a more recent or late year. To know more about possible exceptions on data please click on the "Download Indicator" link on each variable. When a year of reference corresponds to a school year encompassing two years, the reference reads as follows: 2018 for school year 2017/2018.
*TALIS averages are based on all countries participating in the TALIS survey, including partner countries and economies. This explains the difference between the OECD average and the TALIS average. Data from the TALIS survey and Education at a Glance (EAG) may differ. See Annex E of the TALIS technical report and Annex 3 of EAG 2021 for more details about the data collections.
B-S-J-Z (China) refers to the four PISA-participating provinces/municipalities of the People's Republic of China: Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
For additional notes, please refer to annexes in the list of links below the introductory text.