Students in the Asia-Pacific region have achieved significantly higher scores in this year’s International Baccalaureate Diploma and Career-related programmes than those from other regions, on average.

Students in the region achieved an average grade on the Diploma Programme of 5.25, and of 4.88 in the Career-related Programme, against global averages of 4.67 and 3.93 respectively.

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They were followed by students in the Africa, Europe and Middle East region, where average scores were 5.07 for the Diploma Programme and 4.39 for the Career-related Programme.

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North America performed slightly below the global average for both programmes, at 4.26 and 3.73 in the Diploma and Career-related Programme respectively.

Latin America’s students achieved a higher average score in the Career-related Programme than the global average, at 4.11, but performed slightly below the global average in the Diploma programme, with average scores of 4.26.