IDA only | Persistence to last grade of primary, total (% of cohort)

Persistence to last grade of primary is the percentage of children enrolled in the first grade of primary school who eventually reach the last grade of primary education. The estimate is based on the reconstructed cohort method. Development relevance: The cohort survival rate measures an education system's holding power and internal efficiency. Rates approaching 100 percent indicate high retention and low dropout levels. Limitations and exceptions: The estimates have limitations in capturing real trend in that an observed rate will be applied to the underlying indicators such as repetition rate and promotion rate throughout the cohort life, and re-entrants, grade skipping, migration or transfers during a school year are not adequately captured. Statistical concept and methodology: Cohort survival rate is calculated by dividing the total number of children belonging to a cohort who reached each successive grade of the specified level of education by the number of children in the same cohort; those originally enrolled in the first grade of primary education, and multiplying by 100. To reflect current patterns of grade transition, it is calculated based on the reconstructed cohort method, which uses data on enrollment by grade for the two most recent years and data on repeaters by grade for the most recent of those two years. Data on education are collected by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics from official responses to its annual education survey. All the data are mapped to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) to ensure the comparability of education programs at the international level. The current version was formally adopted by UNESCO Member States in 2011. The reference years reflect the school year for which the data are presented. In some countries the school year spans two calendar years (for example, from September 2010 to June 2011); in these cases the reference year refers to the year in which the school year ended (2011 in the example).
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
IDA only
Records
63
Source
IDA only | Persistence to last grade of primary, total (% of cohort)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
43.815979 1970
42.8232193 1971
43.71532822 1972
44.64844131 1973
46.35643005 1974
46.96207047 1975
47.00091171 1976
48.70761108 1977
48.00619888 1978
48.21537018 1979
47.69009018 1980
47.65108871 1981
49.2467804 1982
49.7984314 1983
50.6399498 1984
52.61560822 1985
53.81600952 1986
54.19493866 1987
54.55171967 1988
54.67641068 1989
55.81483078 1990
55.53348923 1991
56.86481857 1992
56.71023941 1993
55.92034912 1994
56.86238861 1995
56.14960098 1996
56.12950134 1997
56.18310165 1998
57.77865982 1999
59.86119843 2000
62.62569046 2001
61.8818512 2002
60.56512833 2003
61.43516922 2004
61.2170105 2005
61.93465042 2006
61.16699982 2007
59.58871841 2008
58.0680809 2009
57.59006119 2010
58.8787384 2011
56.03044128 2012
55.66860962 2013
56.44945908 2014
57.87723923 2015
58.05340958 2016
59.87516022 2017
60.03900909 2018
60.74531937 2019
62.00049973 2020
2021
2022

IDA only | Persistence to last grade of primary, total (% of cohort)

Persistence to last grade of primary is the percentage of children enrolled in the first grade of primary school who eventually reach the last grade of primary education. The estimate is based on the reconstructed cohort method. Development relevance: The cohort survival rate measures an education system's holding power and internal efficiency. Rates approaching 100 percent indicate high retention and low dropout levels. Limitations and exceptions: The estimates have limitations in capturing real trend in that an observed rate will be applied to the underlying indicators such as repetition rate and promotion rate throughout the cohort life, and re-entrants, grade skipping, migration or transfers during a school year are not adequately captured. Statistical concept and methodology: Cohort survival rate is calculated by dividing the total number of children belonging to a cohort who reached each successive grade of the specified level of education by the number of children in the same cohort; those originally enrolled in the first grade of primary education, and multiplying by 100. To reflect current patterns of grade transition, it is calculated based on the reconstructed cohort method, which uses data on enrollment by grade for the two most recent years and data on repeaters by grade for the most recent of those two years. Data on education are collected by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics from official responses to its annual education survey. All the data are mapped to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) to ensure the comparability of education programs at the international level. The current version was formally adopted by UNESCO Member States in 2011. The reference years reflect the school year for which the data are presented. In some countries the school year spans two calendar years (for example, from September 2010 to June 2011); in these cases the reference year refers to the year in which the school year ended (2011 in the example).
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
IDA only
Records
63
Source