IBonomicsWhat Percentage of Students Get a 7 in IB Digital Society?
Latest data: May 2026Provisional
In May 2026, 2.3% of the 1,160 students who took IB Digital Society HL were awarded a 7, and 3.1% of the 1,284 who took it at SL.
Compared with May 2025, the grade 7 rate was up from 1.7% at HL and up from 1.1% at SL.
Digital Society replaced Information Technology in a Global Society, last assessed in November 2023. Results for the earlier course are on a separate page: IB Information Technology in a Global Society grade 7 rate.
- HL grade 7 rate
- 2.3%
- May 2025: 1.7%
- SL grade 7 rate
- 3.1%
- May 2025: 1.1%
Digital Society grade 7 rate by session
The share of students awarded a 7 at HL and SL in every session since May 2024. Solid lines are May sessions and dashed lines November, a much smaller session. The table adds the change from the same session a year earlier. For the other grades, see the IB Digital Society grade distribution.
| Session | HL | HL change | SL | SL change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2026provisional | 2.3% | +0.6 | 3.1% | +2.0 |
| November 2025 | 1.7% | +0.8 | 0.4% | 0.0 |
| May 2025 | 1.7% | +1.1 | 1.1% | −1.1 |
| November 2024 | 0.9% | — | 0.4% | — |
| May 2024 | 0.6% | — | 2.2% | — |
Change: the difference from the same session a year earlier, May from May and November from November, in percentage points.
—: no result for that session, or none a year earlier to compare it with.
- Grade cells the bulletin leaves blank are shown as 0.0%. (May 2024, May 2025)
How the Digital Society grade 7 rate compares with other subjects
Of the 23 subjects with at least 100 students at HL in May 2026, IB Digital Society had the lowest grade 7 rate. At SL it had the 24th highest of 30. Every subject is ranked in IB subjects with the highest grade 7 rates.
The chart and table show the grade 7 rates of the subjects in Group 3: Individuals and Societies with at least 100 students at a level.
| Subject | HL | SL |
|---|---|---|
| Economics | 14.7% | 14.3% |
| Geography | 12.7% | 7.5% |
| Philosophy | 8.6% | 8.6% |
| Social and Cultural Anthropology | 7.7% | 2.6% |
| Business Management | 6.6% | 10.0% |
| Global Politics | 6.1% | 4.1% |
| Psychology | 6.0% | 4.0% |
| History | 2.6% | 3.3% |
| Digital Society | 2.3% | 3.1% |
| Turkey in the 20th Century | — | 14.6% |
| Brazilian Social Studies | — | 8.7% |
| Art History | — | 7.0% |
| World Religions | — | 2.3% |
—: not offered at that level, or fewer than 100 students took it.
Rankings include every subject with at least 100 students at the level except the language courses, whose results are reported by language.
More Digital Society statistics
- IB Digital Society Exam StatisticsHL and SL side by side, with every session's results
- IB Digital Society HL StatisticsHigher Level (HL) results in every session, with grade distributions
- IB Digital Society SL StatisticsStandard Level (SL) results in every session, with grade distributions
- IB Digital Society Grade DistributionGrades 1 to 7 at HL and SL in every session
- Average IB Digital Society GradeMean grades in every session, and how they changed
Compare with other subjects
- IB Subjects With the Highest Grade 7 RatesSubjects ranked by the share of students awarded a 7
- Average IB Grade by SubjectMean grades at HL and SL, ranked
- Most Popular IB SubjectsSubjects ranked by number of students
- IB May 2026 Exam StatisticsEvery subject's results in May 2026, with the Diploma pass rate
- IB Results Explorer: All Subjects and LanguagesEvery subject and language, with no minimum number of students
Source and methodology
These statistics are from the International Baccalaureate's statistical bulletins. The latest data shown is from the May 2026 assessment session.
Bulletins
- The IB Diploma Programme and Career-Related Programme Provisional Statistical Bulletin, May 2026
- The IB Diploma Programme Final Statistical Bulletin, November 2025
- The IB Diploma Programme and Career-Related Programme Final Statistical Bulletin, May 2025
- The IB Diploma Programme Final Statistical Bulletin, November 2024
- The IB Diploma Programme and Career-Related Programme Final Statistical Bulletin, May 2024
About this data
- May and November are separate assessment sessions. November is much smaller and mostly taken by schools in the southern hemisphere, so its figures aren't directly comparable with May's.
- The May 2026 figures are from the IB's provisional bulletin and may change when the final bulletin is published.
- Older bulletins call the people sitting the exams “candidates” and newer ones “students”. This site says “students” throughout.
- “<10” means the IB didn't publish the exact number because fewer than 10 students took the subject. These figures are never estimated or counted as zero.
- The grade 7 rate is the share of students the bulletin reports at grade 7. The grade 6 or 7 rate is calculated by IBonomics by adding the published shares for grades 6 and 7. Every other figure is as published.
- The bulletins include students who received no grade (N) in each subject's percentages, so grades 1 to 7 add up to slightly less than 100%.
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