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EDUCATION: PISA 2025 RESULTS
Students’ reading and mathematics performance declined sharply across the OECD
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Over 760 000 students in 91 countries and economies participated in PISA 2025. Overall performance of OECD countries declined to their lowest average ever recorded in science, reading and mathematics. PISA 2025 examines education in the age of AI, student sense of belonging and susceptibility to misinformation.
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Education performance continues to decline, with huge drops in reading
The PISA results reveal an uneven picture of educational performance, with learning outcomes largely stagnating or continuing to decline in many countries. In science, the main focus of PISA 2025, average scores fell modestly across OECD countries between 2015 and 2025, while remaining broadly stable in other countries and economies. In mathematics, average scores fell by 22 points between 2015 and 2025 across the OECD, with performance also declining among non-OECD members. Reading recorded the steepest drop, with scores falling by 28 points across OECD countries and by 16 points among other countries and economies between 2015 and 2025.
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The OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) is a forum and knowledge hub for data, analysis and best practices in public policy. We work with over 100 countries across the world to build stronger, fairer and cleaner societies – helping to shape better policies for better lives.