Tweet
Question: How well could your child do the following when he/she began primary/ elementary school? - Recognize most of the letters of the alphabet
Choices: "Very well" "Moderately well" "Not very well" "Not at all"
Data: % of "Very well"
Period:
Area:
53 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Bahrain79.4%
2 Ireland78.0%
3 United Arab Emirates76.2%
4 Qatar72.0%
4 Singapore72.0%
6 Oman70.2%
7 Croatia70.0%
8 Saudi Arabia69.0%
9 Latvia67.6%
10 Kosovo66.5%
11 Canada65.8%
12 Albania63.0%
13 Spain62.7%
14 Poland61.5%
15 Kuwait60.6%
16 France60.3%
17 Bosnia and Herzegovina59.7%
18 Serbia59.4%
19 Finland58.4%
20 Republic of Korea58.0%
21 Japan56.9%
22 Hong Kong, China56.1%
23 Russian Federation55.4%
24 Cyprus55.1%
25 Malta54.3%
26 North Macedonia53.7%
27 Bulgaria53.1%
27 Kazakhstan53.1%
29 Sweden52.7%
30 Azerbaijan52.4%
31 South Africa52.1%
32 Lithuania50.8%
33 Pakistan49.5%
34 Philippines49.2%
35 Montenegro48.5%
36 Georgia47.5%
37 Armenia46.4%
37 New Zealand46.4%
39 Taiwan45.9%
40 Morocco 44.2%
41 Iran42.2%
42 Chile38.5%
43 Portugal38.3%
44 Czech Republic38.0%
45 Norway37.5%
46 Italy35.7%
47 Austria34.5%
48 Slovakia32.0%
49 Denmark31.3%
50 Turkiye31.1%
51 Germany28.3%
52 Belgium25.6%
53 Hungary22.3%

Note
The result of the survey on the parents of Grade 4 students. Belgium: The Flemish Community only. United Kingdom: England only.

No data for 185 countries.

Source
TIMSS 2019 > International Database > TIMSS 2019 Data Almanacs - Grade 4

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data51
Regression equation
Y = 0.102930 X +6.118
Correlation coefficient (r)0.018
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data53
Regression equation
Y = 11814.928471 X +23197.669
Correlation coefficient (r)0.071
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data52
Regression equation
Y = -0.657361 X +78.306
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.021
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data52
Regression equation
Y = -0.038238 X +1.712
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.011
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data50
Regression equation
Y = -3.524003 X +13.221
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.079
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006