{"id":1206771,"name":"Percent of students who could not read a single word of a short text","unit":"%","description":"Percent of grade 2 students who could not read a single word of a short text","createdAt":"2026-03-06T11:06:16.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-03-06T11:06:16.000Z","coverage":"","timespan":"2015-2015","datasetId":7508,"columnOrder":0,"shortName":"percent_of_students_who_could_not_read_a_single_word_of_a_short_text","catalogPath":"grapher/education/2017-11-06/basic_reading_and_maths_skills__world_development_report__2018/basic_reading_and_maths_skills__world_development_report__2018#percent_of_students_who_could_not_read_a_single_word_of_a_short_text","type":"float","datasetName":"Basic reading and maths skills - World Development Report (2018)","datasetVersion":"2017-11-06","nonRedistributable":false,"display":{"unit":"%"},"schemaVersion":1,"presentation":{},"source":{"id":31219,"name":"World Development Report, Shortfalls in Learning (2018)","dataPublishedBy":"World Development Report (2018)","dataPublisherSource":"","link":"http://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/wdr2018/brief/world-development-report-2018-data","retrievedDate":"2017-11-06","additionalInfo":"The World Development Report (2018) includes the following information regarding sources: \"WDR 2018 team, using reading and mathematics data for Kenya and Uganda from Uwezo, Annual Assessment Reports, 2015 (www.uwezo.net/); reading and mathematics data for rural India from ASER Centre (2017); reading data for all other countries from U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Early Grade Reading Barometer, 2017, accessed May 30, 2017 (www.earlygradereadingbarometer.org/); and mathematics data for all other countries from USAID/RTI Early Grade Mathematics Assessment intervention reports, 2012–15 (shared.rti.org/sub-topic/early-grade-math-assessment-egma).\"\n\nThe original source notes: \"These data typically pertain to selected regions in the countries and are not necessarily nationally representative. Data for India pertain to rural areas.\""},"dimensions":{"years":{"values":[{"id":2015}]},"entities":{"values":[{"id":150,"name":"Ghana","code":"GHA"},{"id":137,"name":"India","code":"IND"},{"id":134,"name":"Iraq","code":"IRQ"},{"id":130,"name":"Jordan","code":"JOR"},{"id":121,"name":"Liberia","code":"LBR"},{"id":117,"name":"Malawi","code":"MWI"},{"id":110,"name":"Morocco","code":"MAR"},{"id":107,"name":"Nepal","code":"NPL"},{"id":64,"name":"Tanzania","code":"TZA"},{"id":68,"name":"Uganda","code":"UGA"},{"id":61,"name":"Yemen","code":"YEM"},{"id":60,"name":"Zambia","code":"ZMB"}]}},"origins":[]}