Result of Nationwide Achievement Test by Prefecture in Japan

The government conducts the nationwide achievement test every year. The following shows the result of the test among the 5th grade students by prefecture in 2012. Each number means the percentage of correct answers. Students in Akita are the smartest.

	percentage of correct answers (%)
	Linguistic problem A	Linguistic problem B	Mathematical problem A	Mathematical problem B	Total
Average (National and Private school)	62.9	49.6	77.3	58.6	62.1
Average (Municipal school)	62.7	49.4	77.2	58.4	61.9

Hokkaido	60.4	46.4	74.9	54.0	58.9
Aomori	68.7	52.9	80.7	60.5	65.7
Iwate	65.5	50.8	78.3	57.9	63.1
Miyagi	60.8	47.6	76.3	56.5	60.3
Akita	71.7	59.1	82.8	67.1	70.2
Yamagata	63.9	48.5	77.3	57.1	61.7
Fukushima	63.9	48.5	76.4	55.3	61.0
Ibaraki	63.7	49.7	77.2	58.9	62.4
Tochigi	61.1	47.9	76.8	56.3	60.5
Gunma	61.3	47.5	76.4	55.0	60.1
Saitama	62.6	49.7	76.2	57.7	61.6
Chiba	61.9	50.1	77.1	59.4	62.1
Tokyo	64.8	52.1	78.4	60.8	64.0
Kanagawa	61.5	49.7	76.5	58.7	61.6
Niigata	66.3	50.4	79.5	59.3	63.9
Toyama	63.8	50.7	79.7	60.4	63.7
Ishikawa	67.6	54.3	80.2	64.3	66.6
Fukui	68.6	54.3	81.6	65.1	67.4
Yamanashi	60.1	47.5	75.6	55.8	59.8
Nagano	63.7	50.3	77.8	59.5	62.8
Gifu	61.3	49.1	76.2	56.0	60.7
Shizuoka	57.7	47.3	76.2	56.6	59.5
Aichi	61.2	48.6	76.2	59.5	61.4
Mie	60.3	46.7	75.8	55.3	59.5
Shiga	58.8	46.4	74.7	55.1	58.8
Kyoto	65.8	52.1	79.2	61.1	64.6
Osaka	61.2	47.9	77.1	57.3	60.9
Hyogo	63.3	49.9	77.4	59.2	62.5
Nara	62.6	50.1	78.6	58.5	62.5
Wakayama	62.4	47.5	76.4	56.9	60.8
Tottori	63.9	50.4	78.1	60.2	63.2
Shimane	59.9	46.8	74.3	55.8	59.2
Okayama	61.4	47.7	74.6	57.2	60.2
Hiroshima	65.8	52.7	79.2	61.3	64.8
Yamaguchi	64.3	50.2	77.9	59.9	63.1
Tokushima	63.3	49.0	75.8	58.4	61.6
Kagawa	66.8	52.9	78.1	62.1	65.0
Ehime	63.1	50.7	77.6	61.0	63.1
Kochi	65.3	49.8	78.8	57.9	63.0
Fukuoka	63.2	49.1	77.2	58.7	62.1
Saga	63.3	46.8	77.1	57.4	61.2
Nagasaki	60.3	46.9	76.4	57.1	60.2
Kumamoto	64.0	48.1	78.5	58.6	62.3
Oita	62.3	48.7	78.7	57.8	61.9
Miyazaki	64.5	48.1	77.0	56.8	61.6
Kagoshima	64.7	47.9	78.8	56.7	62.0
Okinawa	58.3	45.5	73.3	54.4	57.9