Education of Disadvantaged Children in OIC:

The Key to Escape from Poverty

Figure 20 Distribution of Pupils by Average Number of Words Read Accurately in One Minute

– Early Primary (Grade 2)

Note: Data is obtained from PASEC (2015)

Figure 21 Percentage of children of primary school age taking part in PIRLS reading

assessment and TIMSS mathematics assessment passing first level of difficulty

PIRLS 2011

TIMSS 2011

Note: Data is obtained from UNESCO’s WIDE Database.

11,6

15,4

26,2

27,4

32,6

39,7

41,2

48,1

24,5

29,3

41,9

44,6

31,7

29,4

36,3

27,6

100

Burkina

Faso

Senegal

Côte

d’Ivoire

Chad

Togo Cameroon Benin

Niger

% of children in Grade 2

More than 20 words

11 to 20 words

6 to 10 words

1 to 5 words

0 words

55 56 58 58 63 65 66

73 74 76 78 78 82 86 87

92 93 93 93 95 95 95 96 96 96 96 97 97 97 98 98 98 98 98 98 99 99 99 99100100

100

Morocco

Oman

Botswana

South Africa

Kuwait

Qatar

United Arab…

Saudi Arabia

Indonesia

Colombia

Honduras

Iran, I. R.

Trinidad and…

Malta

Azerbaijan

Romania

Georgia

New Zealand

Israel

Australia

Bulgaria

Spain

Hungary

Poland

Norway

France

Slovenia

Slovakia

Singapore

Lithuania

Ireland

Italy

Austria

Germany

Sweden

Canada

Portugal

Czech Republic

Denmark

Croatia

Russian Fed.

Finland

Netherlands

Percentage of children of

primary school age taking part

in PIRLS 2011 reading

assessment passing first level of

difficulty

24 28 33

54 55

64 64 67 71 73 73 78 78 78 79

85 87 88 88 89 90 91 91 91 92 92 94 94 94 95 95 96 96 97 97 97 98 98 98 99 99100100

100

Yemen

Morocco

Kuwait

Tunisia

Oman

Saudi Arabia

Qatar

United Arab…

Iran, I. R.

Bahrain

Armenia

Azerbaijan

Georgia

Thailand

Turkey

Chile