<p>You can use the PISA study from OECD. It evaluates the skills and knowledge in reading, mathematics and sciene of 15-year-old students. PISA does not combine these results, but commentators do so sometimes.  </p>

<p>The most recent results are from 2012, you can find an overview of the rankings <a href="https://www.oecd.org/pisa/keyfindings/pisa-2012-results-overview.pdf" rel="nofollow">here</a>. These rankings are composited from various tabels you can download using the links at page 297 from <a href="https://www.oecd.org/pisa/keyfindings/pisa-2012-results-volume-I.pdf" rel="nofollow">this document</a>.
Results of 2009 are available in a xls-file. Scroll down <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2010/dec/07/world-education-rankings-maths-science-reading" rel="nofollow">this artcile</a> to download.</p>

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hi this is pdf - do you have link to the raw data?
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@Altons I can not find a xls-file for 2012, but I added some links where you can download the scores on reading, mathematics and science sepperatly. The composite xls-file is available for 2009, so I added it too.
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<p>kaggle.com actually has a dataset that fits what you are looking for. The data set is called <a href="https://www.kaggle.com/theworldbank/education-statistics" rel="nofollow noreferrer">"Education Statistics"</a>.</p>

<p>From the preview of the data, it seems like you cant do much with it, however you can rank countries by educational achievement and enrollment as done here <a href="https://www.kaggle.com/pjoshi15/d/theworldbank/education-statistics/data-exploration-world-education" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a>. </p>

<p>hope this helps</p>

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<p>I've been looking for a dataset with a single education indicator by country so I can rank/compare them but I haven't found anything.</p>

<p>Already seen Unesco and Worldbank data but info is too much for what I really need at this point. Also had a look at the  Human Development Index (HDI)  but this is a composite statistic of life expectancy, education, and income per capita indicators so my analysi will be obscured by other elements.</p>

<p>I just need (for now) to be able to say for example Japan > Spain or Canada ranks 10th worldwide.</p>

<p>Does anyone have any idea as where I can download (if exists) this data set? API can work too. Ideally info comes with country iso code.</p>

<p>Thanks in advance.</p>

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Average years of education? http://datatopics.worldbank.org/Education/wDataQuery/QProjections.aspx
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Global Education Indicators - dataset
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# Global Education Indicators - dataset

(Asked by: username_0 on 2016-06-28)

I've been looking for a dataset with a single education indicator by country so I can rank/compare them but I haven't found anything.

Already seen Unesco and Worldbank data but info is too much for what I really need at this point. Also had a look at the Human Development Index (HDI) but this is a composite statistic of life expectancy, education, and income per capita indicators so my analysi will be obscured by other elements.

I just need (for now) to be able to say for example Japan > Spain or Canada ranks 10th worldwide.

Does anyone have any idea as where I can download (if exists) this data set? API can work too. Ideally info comes with country iso code.

Thanks in advance.

**Tags:** data-request, education-economics

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Average years of education? http://datatopics.worldbank.org/Education/wDataQuery/QProjections.aspx  

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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2016-07-02. Score: 2

You can use the PISA study from OECD. It evaluates the skills and knowledge in reading, mathematics and sciene of 15-year-old students. PISA does not combine these results, but commentators do so sometimes.

The most recent results are from 2012, you can find an overview of the rankings [here](https://www.oecd.org/pisa/keyfindings/pisa-2012-results-overview.pdf). These rankings are composited from various tabels you can download using the links at page 297 from [this document](https://www.oecd.org/pisa/keyfindings/pisa-2012-results-volume-I.pdf).
Results of 2009 are available in a xls-file. Scroll down [this artcile](https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2010/dec/07/world-education-rankings-maths-science-reading) to download.

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: hi this is pdf - do you have link to the raw data?  
> **username_2**: @username_0 I can not find a xls-file for 2012, but I added some links where you can download the scores on reading, mathematics and science sepperatly. The composite xls-file is available for 2009, so I added it too.  

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### Answer by username_3 on 2017-04-09. Score: 2

kaggle.com actually has a dataset that fits what you are looking for. The data set is called ["Education Statistics"](https://www.kaggle.com/theworldbank/education-statistics).

From the preview of the data, it seems like you cant do much with it, however you can rank countries by educational achievement and enrollment as done here [here](https://www.kaggle.com/pjoshi15/d/theworldbank/education-statistics/data-exploration-world-education).

hope this helps


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