ICCS Civic Knowledge, Grade 8
Average civic knowledge and understanding score of eighth-grade students — how democracy, institutions and citizenship work. ICCS 2022 (IEA).
Source: ICCS 2022 (IEA) Licence: IEA International Database — free for research and publication with citation Unit: IEA score Parsed: 2026-09-28 Open source ↗
Period: 2022 cycle. Method: Weighted mean of the five plausible values, as IEA estimates it. Left out, as in IEA's own ranking: BRA (sample participation requirements not met); DNK (sample participation requirements not met). Benchmarking participants are not countries and are not shown.
Avg (2022)
507.6
single period
Improving
0
of 20 tracked
Declining
0
period over period
Stable
20
±0.5pp band
Mean civic knowledge score, grade 8
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ICCS Civic Knowledge, Grade 8 — full ranking
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| # | Entity | Mean civic knowledge score, grade 8 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 🇹🇼 Taiwan | 583.1 |
| 2 | 🇸🇪 Sweden | 564.6 |
| 3 | 🇵🇱 Poland | 554.2 |
| 4 | 🇪🇪 Estonia | 545.2 |
| 5 | 🇭🇷 Croatia | 531.3 |
| 6 | 🇳🇴 Norway | 529.1 |
| 7 | 🇮🇹 Italy | 523 |
| 8 | 🇪🇸 Spain | 509.7 |
| 9 | 🇱🇹 Lithuania | 508.9 |
| 10 | 🇫🇷 France | 508.3 |
| 11 | 🇳🇱 Netherlands | 508.3 |
| 12 | 🇸🇮 Slovenia | 504.1 |
| 13 | 🇸🇰 Slovak Republic | 501.1 |
| 14 | 🇱🇻 Latvia | 490.1 |
| 15 | 🇲🇹 Malta | 489.5 |
| 16 | 🇷🇴 Romania | 470.1 |
| 17 | 🇷🇸 Serbia | 463.9 |
| 18 | 🇨🇾 Cyprus | 459 |
| 19 | 🇧🇬 Bulgaria | 455.9 |
| 20 | 🇨🇴 Colombia | 452.1 |