ICILS Computational Thinking, Grade 8
Average score of eighth-grade students in framing problems and designing solutions a computer can run; not every country took this option. ICILS 2023 (IEA).
Source: ICILS 2023 (IEA) Licence: IEA International Database — free for research and publication with citation Unit: IEA score Parsed: 2026-09-28 Open source ↗
Period: 2023 cycle. Method: Weighted mean of the five plausible values, as IEA estimates it. Left out, as in IEA's own ranking: USA (sample participation requirements not met). Benchmarking participants are not countries and are not shown.
Avg (2023)
479.8
single period
Improving
0
of 21 tracked
Declining
0
period over period
Stable
21
±0.5pp band
Mean computational thinking score, grade 8
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ICILS Computational Thinking, Grade 8 — full ranking
Every entity in this dataset, in HTML. The interactive panel above shows the same numbers; this is the one that survives without JavaScript.
| # | Entity | Mean computational thinking score, grade 8 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 🇹🇼 Taiwan | 548.4 |
| 2 | 🇰🇷 South Korea | 536.8 |
| 3 | 🇨🇿 Czech Republic | 526.7 |
| 4 | 🇩🇰 Denmark | 504 |
| 5 | 🇫🇮 Finland | 501.5 |
| 6 | 🇫🇷 France | 499.3 |
| 7 | 🇸🇰 Slovak Republic | 498.1 |
| 8 | 🇱🇻 Latvia | 495.2 |
| 9 | 🇸🇪 Sweden | 486.4 |
| 10 | 🇳🇴 Norway | 484.7 |
| 11 | 🇵🇹 Portugal | 483.9 |
| 12 | 🇮🇹 Italy | 482 |
| 13 | 🇩🇪 Germany | 479 |
| 14 | 🇦🇹 Austria | 476.3 |
| 15 | 🇱🇺 Luxembourg | 475.5 |
| 16 | 🇸🇮 Slovenia | 448.2 |
| 17 | 🇳🇱 Netherlands | 440.3 |
| 18 | 🇲🇹 Malta | 437.9 |
| 19 | 🇭🇷 Croatia | 428.7 |
| 20 | 🇷🇸 Serbia | 421.8 |
| 21 | 🇺🇾 Uruguay | 421.1 |