Lithuanian 15-year-olds performed above the average of OECD countries in mathematics, reading, science and information problem-solving in the latest PISA assessment, ranking ahead of more than two-thirds of participating countries, officials said Tuesday.
The 2025 Programme for International Student Assessment, or PISA, covered about 700,000 students in 91 countries, including 38 OECD countries or parts of countries and 53 partner countries. Science literacy was the main focus of the assessment.
Lithuanian students ranked above 64 countries in mathematics, 63 in reading, 62 in science and 63 in information problem-solving.
“Average Lithuanian scores in all four assessment areas are higher than the OECD average,” said Rita Dukynaitė, a member of the OECD PISA governing board. She added that Lithuania’s results were stable or had declined less than the OECD average, which she described as encouraging.
Lithuania’s science results were statistically similar to those of the Czech Republic, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Slovenia, France, Italy and Portugal. Lithuanian students also performed similarly to their peers in Denmark, Slovakia, Finland, Italy, Germany and the United States in mathematics.
